406 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

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

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

What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and time again? An instant of pain perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time like a blurred photograph, like an insect trapped in amber.

The raindrops were tears too. The whole world was crying.

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.

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It’s lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

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.

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

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.