Top 200 Guillermo del Toro Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “People who have lived their whole lives feeling half-complete. Who never truly fit anywhere in the world. Who never understood why they were here, or what they were meant for. Who never answered the call, because they never heard it. Because nothing ever spoke to them.”

— Guillermo del Toro

152. “I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.”

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153. “I guess a vampire doesn’t have much need for good hygiene.”

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154. “That’s the thing about being a janitor, or maid, any type of custodian. You glide unseen, like a fish underwater.”

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155. “I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.”

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156. “There are a lot of period movies where they say, ‘This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.’ And it’s done in like a 1950s or 60s style.”

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157. “Cars get girl names. Guns get guy names. What do knives get?”

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158. “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.”

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159. “When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.”

— Guillermo del Toro

160. “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.”

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161. “There are two types of producing deals, and I’ve had both. I’ve produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you’re enjoying it.”

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162. “For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.”

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163. “I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.”

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164. “The doctor’s code is, ‘First – do no harm.’ The politician’s code is, ‘First – go on television.”

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165. “In you, we have given this world a great gift – and of that, I have no doubt.”

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166. “So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto’s Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all.”

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167. “The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it’s a banquet. You don’t want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.”

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168. “At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes “I’m not my dad” or “I’m not my mom.””

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169. “It’s important for little girls to know not every story has to be a love story and for boys to know that soldiers aren’t the only ones to triumph in war.”

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170. “By God, Giles thinks, it’s true: They are not so different from each other. Giles might still, under the right light, bathed in the right water, be beautiful, too.”

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171. “Sometimes even the healers are turned into butchers by the darkness of this world.”

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172. “When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight – it’s faster in a way.”

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173. “But what is intelligence? Is intelligence calculations and computations? Or must true intelligence contain a moral component? Each passing minute, I believe more that this is the case.”

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174. “Carmen Cardoso believed the most dangerous tale of all: the one of the prince who would save her.”

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175. “Looking back on one’s life, you see that love was the answer to everything. I love you, Nora. I always will. And that we will have forever.”

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176. “I feel as if a link exists between your heart and mine, and should that link be broken, either by distance or by time, then my heart would cease to beat and I would die.”

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177. “I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.”

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178. “But all things lost can be found again, the trees whispered.”

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179. “The room smelled milky, of vanilla and almond, from the breakdown of chemical compounds in the old paper.”

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180. “Sometimes the objects we hold dear give away who we are even more than the people we love. The glass of the watch had cracked in the hand of Vidal’s father at the very moment he died, which his son took as proof that things could survive death if only one kept them clean and in perfect order.”

— Guillermo del Toro

181. “If past wrongs are not addressed, and dealt with honestly, dark spirits will erupt through the unhealed seam. It is the same for cities and towns as it is for people.”

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182. “We feel immortal when we are young. Or maybe we just don’t care that much about death yet?”

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183. “When she finally wrapped her arms around the girl, the softness stirring in her heart frightened her. It was dangerous to be soft in this world.”

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184. “Part of getting old is checking oneself constantly. Keeping a good firm grip on the handrail. Making sure you’re still you.”

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185. “So much cruelty. She’d seen too much of it in this place. Sometimes she wondered whether it covered her heart like mold by now.”

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186. “Em nossas escolhas encontra-se o nosso destino.”

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187. “Evil seldom takes shape immediately. It is often little more than a whisper at first. A glance. A betrayal. But then it grows and takes root, still invisible, unnoticed. Only fairy tales give evil a proper shape.”

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188. “As a kid, I dreamed of having a house with secret passages and a room where it rained 24 hours a day.”

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189. “The world changes, or doesn’t. You fight for the right things and be glad you did.”

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190. “We are all insane to one degree or another, and the most functional of us merely hides it the best.”

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191. “But I think it is a hopeful story. Is not some underwater paradise preferable to a life of poverty and incest and violence?”

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192. “Since childhood, I’ve been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing.”

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193. “Elisa believes this creature is accustomed to much larger gestures: full-body tumbles within seething seas; darting attacks; unfolding to full height beneath a tropical sun.”

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194. “Sometimes we need to see what we feel so we can know about it.”

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195. “When she reaches into the tub to swirl the salt, their eyes meet, only for a second, but in that second she reads both gratitude and amazement. The idea is outlandish. She amazes him. How is that possible, when he is the most amazing thing that ever lived?”

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196. “Do we not all do monstrous things to prevent the ultimate monstrous act? I like to visualize the world as a china plate held aloft by two sticks, one the US, the other the USSR. If one stick rises, so must the other, or else the plate goes smash.”

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197. “Elisa lives in a world of her own devising. That’s obvious from the shoes. Zelda imagines Elisa’s perception as one of those dioramas she saw in a museum, perfect little realms, breakable but not if you walk softly.”

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198. “Elisa nuzzles into the phrase, explores it, finds it familiar, almost cozy.”

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199. “So why do we still insist on believing we are somehow something more than animals?”

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200. “Like most of the well-intentioned privileged Elisa has met, he has no grasp of the priorities of the servile, how all they want is to get through a shift without trouble.”

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