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I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
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
I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
— Guillermo Del Toro
'Fresh' was maybe the third audition that I had after I got an agent, so I was crazy excited when I booked it.
— Guillermo Diaz
I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film ...
— Guillermo Del Toro
A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable to implement server software in JavaScript.
— Guillermo Rauch
When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
— Guillermo Del Toro
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.
— Guillermo Diaz
the kingdom is the rule of heaven, the power is the ability of heaven, and the glory is the atmosphere of heaven.
— Guillermo Maldonado
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Del Toro wearing sculpted and molded gelatin makeup, including fake hair and acrylic dentures and gums.
— 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
Well I think effects are tools.
— Guillermo 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
In you, we have given this world a great gift - and of that, I have no doubt.
— 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
Puns are a form of humor with words.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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 am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.
— Guillermo Del Toro
A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
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
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
— Guillermo Del Toro
It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.
— Guillermo Diaz
I was directing before I knew it was called that.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
— 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
Rage is never blind. Rage is uniquely focused.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.
— 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
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
— Guillermo Del Toro
You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
— Guillermo 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
It's as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Until the spirit of might descends upon us, we will not be able to push through the enemy's walls of containment.
— Guillermo Maldonado
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.
— 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
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?
— Guillermo Diaz
I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.
— 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
Guillermo was lonely and serviceable and always rushed in to do the things one wanted in a way one did not want them done.
— Sybille Bedford
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
— Guillermo Del Toro
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
An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?
— Guillermo Del Toro
Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
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
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's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
— 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
I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I'm certainly not computer savvy, at all. I joined Twitter kicking and screaming, and very reluctantly.
— Guillermo Diaz
I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante