Top 200 Guillermo del Toro Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I’m doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.”

— Guillermo del Toro

102. “America is old tobacco: gold and green. It’s lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.”

— Guillermo del Toro

103. “It was well known that she was a junk-food fiend. It was probably what kept her from the waif physique of the most popular girls. Personally I didn’t care what king of saturated fats and granulated sugars were to blame for that excellent figure.”

— Guillermo del Toro

104. “I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it’s great, too.”

— Guillermo del Toro

105. “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

106. “Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.”

— Guillermo del Toro

107. “A key piece of advice from Hermosillo was to have faith in oneself. He would often tell Guillermo, “If a road is not presented, you build one.”

— Guillermo del Toro

108. “For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.”

— Guillermo del Toro

109. “Rage is never blind. Rage is uniquely focused.”

— Guillermo del Toro

110. “You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.”

— Guillermo del Toro

111. “I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don’t see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.”

— Guillermo del Toro

112. “Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.”

— Guillermo del Toro

113. “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

114. “If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.”

— Guillermo del Toro

115. “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

116. “If you believe that the natural world is good, then you must also accept its brutality.”

— Guillermo del Toro

117. “Eons of loneliness, and then one day your ellipsis peaks toward that of another planet and there is a gasp of nearness. Wouldn’t you try to make the most of it? Wouldn’t you, too, combust and flare and explode if you had to?”

— Guillermo del Toro

118. “I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.”

— Guillermo del Toro

119. “Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn’t work.”

— Guillermo del Toro

120. “As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.”

— Guillermo del Toro

121. “Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -.”

— Guillermo del Toro

122. “He is hearing the music, yes, but he’s also feeling it, reflecting it, and from that reflection Elisa can hear and feel the music as she never has before.”

— Guillermo del Toro

123. “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

124. “What would feeling like somebody feel like? To suddenly exist not only in your world, but someone else’s as well?”

— Guillermo del Toro

125. “When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.”

— Guillermo del Toro

126. “Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.”

— Guillermo del Toro

127. “With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It’s like the relationship you have with your children. I’m there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.”

— Guillermo del Toro

128. “She reaches out to him. To herself. There is no difference. She understands now. She holds him, he holds her, they hold each other, and all is dark, all is light, all is ugliness, all is beauty, all is pain, all is grief, all is never, all is forever.”

— Guillermo del Toro

129. “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

130. “Del Toro wearing sculpted and molded gelatin makeup, including fake hair and acrylic dentures and gums.”

— Guillermo del Toro

131. “The only piece of home Ofelia had been able to take with her were some of her books. She closed her fingers firmly around the one on her lap, caressing the cover. When she opened the book, the white pages were so bright against the shadows that filled the forest and the words they offered granted shelter and comfort. The letters were like footprints in the snow, a wide white landscape untouched by pain, unharmed by memories too dark to keep, too sweet to let go of.”

— Guillermo del Toro

132. “Only her master knew her true name, for in the Magic Kingdom to know a name was to own the being that carried it.”

— Guillermo del Toro

133. “Producing is great because you learn.”

— Guillermo del Toro

134. “It’s a situation doomed enough to laugh at, but he thinks of what he used to tell his students. Imagine being a planet. Don’t laugh, he’d tell them. Try to imagine it. Eons of loneliness, and then one day your ellipsis peaks toward that of another planet and there is a gasp of nearness. Wouldn’t you try to make the most of it? Wouldn’t you, too, combust and flare and explode if you had to?”

— Guillermo del Toro

135. “When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don’t win a medal if the movie is on time.”

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

137. “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

138. “I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.”

— Guillermo del Toro

139. “I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.”

— Guillermo del Toro

140. “I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.”

— Guillermo del Toro

141. “I’m a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It’s a change in me.”

— Guillermo del Toro

142. “I’m serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or anyone else, about the city’s pesky troll problem, and you’re not exactly going to get a lot of people saying, ‘Gee, thanks for the warning.’ It’ll spread faster than mono. You think things are tough for us now? Jim, this will be the end. I’m sorry if you had a crazy nightmare. I really am. But I can’t let you ruin our lives.”

— Guillermo del Toro

143. “And I really loved sculpting. My brother and I would do full human figures with clay and Plasticine – liver, intestines, the heart – fill them with ketchup and throw them from the roof. So I was an artistic but very morbid kid.”

— Guillermo del Toro

144. “In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.”

— Guillermo del Toro

145. “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

146. “You never truly know who you are until you get really, deeply hurt.”

— Guillermo del Toro

147. “All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in your entirety for who you are, that’s the greatest act of love, because it’s granting you existence. And the rarest act of love is, like cinema, to see.”

— Guillermo del Toro

148. “I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you’re responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.”

— Guillermo del Toro

149. “I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film...”

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150. “Eph too had been turned. Not from human to vampire, but from healer to slayer.”

— Guillermo del Toro