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Famous Guillermo del Toro Quotes

“History is written by the victor.”

Guillermo del Toro book The Night Eternal

Source: The Night Eternal

“You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.”

Guillermo del Toro

“… to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.”

Guillermo del Toro The Strain Trilogy

Source: The Strain

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”

Guillermo del Toro

“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”

Guillermo del Toro

Source: The Monsters Of Hellboy II

“What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.”

Guillermo del Toro

Source: Hellboy: The Art of the Movie

Guillermo del Toro Quotes about the world

“The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.”

Guillermo del Toro

“What interests me about fascism is that it is a black hole of free will. It is a system which isn’t necessarily unique, but it absolves brutality, it absolves the lack of morals and it absolves people of their own decisions. When they tell you ‘you can kill these people because they are Jews, reds or homosexuals, or whatever!’ In this world you can permit a brutal action on the base of collective advice; that is what scares me.”

Guillermo del Toro

Lo que me interesa del fascismo es justamente que es un hoyo negro de la voluntad. Es un sistema que no necesariamente es único, pero absuelve la brutalidad, absuelve la falta de moral y absuelve la decisión propia. Cuando te dicen “Tú puedes matar a esta gente porque que son judíos, rojos o homosexuales, ¡lo que sea!”
En ese mundo puedes permitir una acción brutal en base a un consejo colectivo, eso es lo que me asusta.
Interview with Guillermo del Toro on 10/23/2006. http://www.fantasymundo.com/articulo.php?articulo=467

“The most interesting thing in nature is that two species exist, only two species, which are expansionist: mankind and insects. All other species are territorial. The insect is a devourer, an expander, it keeps on expanding so much and it doesn’t even care. And mankind is like that, as well… The two species which are going to end up fighting over the world are going to be insects and human beings.”

Guillermo del Toro

Lo que más interesante es en la naturaleza existen dos especies, unicamente dos especies que son expansionistas: el hombre y los insectos. Las demás especies son territoriales. El insecto es devorador, expansionista, hasta que se siegue expandiendo y no le importa. Y el hombre es así... las dos especies que van a acabar peleándose por el mundo van a ser insectos y hombres.
Interview with Guillermo del Toro. http://www.filmoteca.com/sec4/guidtoro.htm

Guillermo del Toro Quotes

“Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic”

Guillermo del Toro book The Night Eternal

Source: The Night Eternal

Personality

“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”

Guillermo del Toro book The Fall

Source: The Fall

Way

“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

“There is beautiful in the grotesque.”

Guillermo del Toro

Interview with Guillermo del Toro. http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn-20090526-1006-Feature_guest_-_Guillermo_del_Toro-048.mp3

Beauty

“The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.”

Guillermo del Toro

10 Questions for Guillermo del Toro, Time Magazine, 9/5/2011. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2090370,00.html

“del Toro: "Needless to say, I wanted another take."”

Guillermo del Toro

“For me these things are like an onion, as you discover more layers, you cry even more. There are no winners in wars, only blood and losers.”

Guillermo del Toro

Para mí estas cosas son como una cebolla, entre más capas descubres, más vas llorando. No hay vencedores en las guerras, sólo sangre y vencidos.
Interview with Guillermo del Toro on 10/09/2006. http://www.elmundo.es/encuentros/invitados/2006/10/2192/

War , Cry

“Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: "He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.”

Guillermo del Toro

“Success is fucking up on your own terms.”

Guillermo del Toro

Portland Mercury Q&A http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2010/09/30/a-few-notes-on-guillermo-del-toros-qanda

Success

“I never liked horses, but after this scene, I hate them. I hate them, they are nasty animals, and I hate cows. Cows are evil. Cows are absolutely evil, I tell you. They look, like, inoffensive, but they're perverted creatures, and so are horses, they are absolutely evil motherfuckers.”

Guillermo del Toro

Pan's Labyrinth DVD director's commentary

Hate , Animals , Horse , Evil