Mexican - Director | October 9, 1964 -
I think looking is the essential act of loving. Brothers, fathers and sons, lovers, whatever. What you do when you love someone is look at that person as that person is.
Guillermo del Toro
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Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character.
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It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.
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I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.
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TV now, you have to plan it: you structure it for binge watching, meaning you structure the whole season like a three-act play. You have a first act - the first third of the season - second act is the middle third, and you structure it like that.
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I think Roald Dahl had the rarest combination of talking to kids about complex emotions, and he was able to show you that the world of kids was sophisticated, complex, and had a lot more darkness than adults ever want to remember.
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You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible.
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I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.
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I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time.
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To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.
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I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me.
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If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor.
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