406 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

With supernatural things, I have heard ghosts, but I've never seen ghosts. I do seek ghosts and I would love to see one, but I would crap my pants.

My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

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.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

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.

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.

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

As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.

You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.