Top 200 Guillermo del Toro Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “That’s the thing about being a janitor, or maid, any type of custodian. You glide unseen, like a fish underwater.”

— Guillermo del Toro

102. “I had gotten to the point where I just didn’t want to perform anymore – I didn’t want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.”

— 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. “I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.”

— Guillermo del Toro

109. “It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? To be dragged under?”

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

112. “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

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

— Guillermo del Toro

114. “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

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

— Guillermo del Toro

116. “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

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

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

124. “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

125. “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

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

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

128. “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

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

— Guillermo del Toro

130. “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

131. “I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it’s really great. I don’t like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.”

— 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. “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

135. “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

136. “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

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

— Guillermo del Toro

138. “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

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

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

141. “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

142. “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

143. “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

144. “I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they’re not all perfect. They’re kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they’re really, really kids that are not entirely great.”

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

146. “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

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

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

149. “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

150. “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