“The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.”
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Famous Guillermo del Toro Quotes
“I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things”
“It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.”
“Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.”
“For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.”
“For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made”
“Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined”
“I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen”
“I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror”
“I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit”
“What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.”
“I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others”
“When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.”
“You have to believe the magic to see it.”
Source: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions