406 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

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

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.

Films are fantastic – they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I’m sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

You deserve better than this. You deserve people who value you. You deserve to go somewhere where you can be proud of who you are.

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

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are.

Rod Serling once observed, “The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can’t share with others.

You never truly know who you are until you get really, deeply hurt.