406 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

People who have lived their whole lives feeling half-complete. Who never truly fit anywhere in the world. Who never understood why they were here, or what they were meant for. Who never answered the call, because they never heard it. Because nothing ever spoke to them.

Every mundanity of life grows infinitely more precious in the face of impending death.

Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There’s no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.

For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

If you’re doing a big spectacle film, you’ve got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you’ve got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It’s like the relationship you have with your children. I’m there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.

Normally my clients were my mother, my grandmother, and my dad, and I would sell them the issues with a great color cover. There was a story I remember called ‘The Invader,’ and it had an invisible dome covering a city, with a giant tentacled monster eating everybody in sight, and people trying to drill a hole in the dome. And I did these epic Prismacolor pencil illustrations and sold out the three issues to my captive audience.

I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I’ve read everything is the horror room.