406 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.

He is hearing the music, yes, but he’s also feeling it, reflecting it, and from that reflection Elisa can hear and feel the music as she never has before.

You can’t explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

If you believe that the natural world is good, then you must also accept its brutality.

The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it’s a banquet. You don’t want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

I’m serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or anyone else, about the city’s pesky troll problem, and you’re not exactly going to get a lot of people saying, ‘Gee, thanks for the warning.’ It’ll spread faster than mono. You think things are tough for us now? Jim, this will be the end. I’m sorry if you had a crazy nightmare. I really am. But I can’t let you ruin our lives.

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn’t have happened without you.

And I really loved sculpting. My brother and I would do full human figures with clay and Plasticine – liver, intestines, the heart – fill them with ketchup and throw them from the roof. So I was an artistic but very morbid kid.