406 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

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

Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple…when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us…

You have to believe the magic to see it.

I'm the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I'd like to be there.

In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.

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

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

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.