406 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person – it only adds the burden of panic.

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

If film making is magic, there’s a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you’re doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

Carmen Cardoso believed the most dangerous tale of all: the one of the prince who would save her.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you’re proud of.

I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they’re not all perfect. They’re kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they’re really, really kids that are not entirely great.

The proper term is “occultation.” The moon occults the sun, casting a small shadow onto the surface of the earth. It is not a solar eclipse, but in fact an eclipse of the earth.

It was never too late to exchange the things you believed defined you for something better.

Eons of loneliness, and then one day your ellipsis peaks toward that of another planet and there is a gasp of nearness. Wouldn’t you try to make the most of it? Wouldn’t you, too, combust and flare and explode if you had to?