Guillermo del Toro Quotes
"I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others."
- Guillermo del Toro
"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Devil, Sense)
"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Devil)
"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Movies, Years)
"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: First)
"I'm a lapsed altar boy."
- Guillermo del Toro
"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Film, First)
"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Love, First)
"Well I think effects are tools."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Tools)
"They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Experience, Open)
"There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created."
- Guillermo del Toro
"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Ideas)
"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
(Related: Attitude, Actors)
"In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Old)
"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Country)
"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: People)
"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
(Related: Movies, Cinema, Project)
"I was directing before I knew it was called that."
- Guillermo del Toro
"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Power, Quiet)
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Movies)
"I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror."
- Guillermo del Toro
(Related: Eye, Horror)
"I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films."
- Guillermo del Toro
"It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism."
- Guillermo del Toro