Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro Gómezis a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. In his filmmaking career, del Toro has alternated between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces, such as the gothic horror film The Devil's Backbone, and Pan's Labyrinth, and more mainstream American action movies, such as the vampire superhero action film Blade II, the supernatural superhero film Hellboy, its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and the science fiction monster film Pacific Rim...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth9 October 1964
CountryMexico
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.
When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.
Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.
I am going to mind the grosses, the opening box offices but why I am concerned with mostly is for the movie to be what I want it to be.
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.
I was directing before I knew it was called that.
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.