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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
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
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
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
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
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
— 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
If you can just get a broad enough perspective on your life ... you'll realize it's all unfolding perfectly. Right this very minute.
— Paul Ian Guillermo
A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable to implement server software in JavaScript.
— Guillermo Rauch
I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.
— Guillermo Diaz
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
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Well I think effects are tools.
— 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
the kingdom is the rule of heaven, the power is the ability of heaven, and the glory is the atmosphere of heaven.
— Guillermo Maldonado
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
Video games are the comic books of our time ... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia.
— Guillermo Del Toro
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert ... if it's too loud, you're too old.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
— 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
Can you zoom in?" The foreman rolled his eyes. "This here ain't CSI - it's Radio-fucking-Shack.
— 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