406 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

An absence of fear, Elisa realizes, can be mistaken for happiness, but it isn’t the same thing. Not even close.

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

I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I’d rather deal with restrictions of budget. It’s better to feel free within any budget.

Men meet a woman who’s mute, they take advantage of her. Never once on a date did a man ever try to communicate, not really. They just grabbed, and took, as if she, voiceless as an animal, was an animal. This is better. The man from the dream, hazy as he is, is better.

The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.

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.

She realizes that, down here, hate has no purpose. Down here, you embrace your foes until they become your friends. Down here, you seek not to be one being, but all beings, and all at once, God and Chemosh and everything in between. The change in her isn’t only mental. It’s physical, of skin and muscle. Yes, she has arrived. She is full. She is perfect.

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

Zelda is black and fat. Yolanda is Mexican and homely. Antonio is a cross-eyed Dominican. Duane is of mixed race and has no teeth. Lucille is albino. Elisa is mute. To Fleming, they are all the same: unfit for other work and therefore easy to trust.