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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edgethe abyss. — Guillermo Del Toro
It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Producing is great because you learn.
— Guillermo Del Toro
You'll meet her. She's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
— Benicio Del Toro
History is written by the victor.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I guess a vampire doesn't have much need for good hygiene.
— Guillermo Del Toro
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
— Benicio Del Toro
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.
— Guillermo Del Toro
For in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
— Guillermo Del Toro
To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
— Benicio Del Toro
so my wife took them up to a friend's on Kinnelon Lake." Not far enough,
— Guillermo Del Toro
It's a terrible thing, isn't it? To be dragged under?
— Guillermo Del Toro
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
— Guillermo Del Toro
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film ...
— Guillermo Del Toro
I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
— Benicio Del Toro
You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Well I think effects are tools.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Miriam Sacher had survived polio as a child. To Abraham, she was simply the most exquisite little bird who could not fly.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Rage is never blind. Rage is uniquely focused.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.
— Benicio Del Toro
The doctor's code is, 'First - do no harm.' The politician's code is, 'First - go on television.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I'm a slow reader.
— Benicio Del Toro
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
— Guillermo Del Toro
It's as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
— Guillermo Del Toro
When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.
— Benicio Del Toro
'License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.
— Benicio Del Toro
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
— Guillermo Del Toro
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
— Guillermo Del Toro
When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
— Guillermo Del Toro
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
— Guillermo Del Toro
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Neeva looked at the puddle of Christ's tears on the floor. When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck
— Guillermo Del Toro
I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Can you zoom in?" The foreman rolled his eyes. "This here ain't CSI - it's Radio-fucking-Shack.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.
— Guillermo Del Toro
In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
— Benicio Del Toro
I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.
— Guillermo Del Toro
You're always just a little too late. You've spent half your life battling regrets. Making up for the past rather than getting it done in the present.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.
— Benicio Del Toro
You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
— Guillermo Del Toro
In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.
— Guillermo Del Toro
You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
— Guillermo Del Toro
When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
— Benicio Del Toro
In you, we have given this world a great gift - and of that, I have no doubt.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
— Benicio Del Toro
I was directing before I knew it was called that.
— Guillermo Del Toro
When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
— Guillermo Del Toro
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
— Guillermo Del Toro
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Rod Serling once observed, The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others.
— Guillermo Del Toro
With supernatural things, I have heard ghosts, but I've never seen ghosts. I do seek ghosts and I would love to see one, but I would crap my pants.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Some roles have been with me forever
— Benicio Del Toro
I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.
— Guillermo Del Toro
All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.
— Guillermo Del Toro
If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.
— Guillermo Del Toro
There's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.
— Benicio Del Toro
Before I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.
— Benicio Del Toro
At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."
— Guillermo Del Toro
Eph too had been turned. Not from human to vampire, but from healer to slayer.
— Guillermo Del Toro
We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
— Benicio Del Toro
I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
— Benicio Del Toro
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
— Emma Watson
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?".
— Guillermo Del Toro
I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.
— Guillermo Del Toro
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
— Benicio Del Toro
Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
— Benicio Del Toro
Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing - and to know the thing is to command it.
— Guillermo Del Toro
For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.
— Guillermo Del Toro
And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I love the creation of these things - I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.
— Guillermo Del Toro
There are a lot of good actresses out there.
— Benicio Del Toro
In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Del Toro wearing sculpted and molded gelatin makeup, including fake hair and acrylic dentures and gums.
— Guillermo Del Toro
An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?
— Guillermo Del Toro
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
— Guillermo Del Toro
There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.
— Benicio Del Toro
Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Looking back on one's life, you see that love was the answer to everything.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.
— Guillermo Del Toro