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Guillermo del Toro, born on October 9, 1964, is a renowned Mexican film director known for his unique visual style and profound thematic explorations. His works, including 'Pan's Labyrinth', 'Hellboy', and 'Pacific Rim', are celebrated for their distinctive aesthetics and deep thematic content.

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“You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Hard Enough Hard Work Broken Careful Consideration Precious Things

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“I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.”

Thinking Habit Hollywood Developing

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“I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.”

Thinking Eye Sound Can Do Teeth Damage Fragile

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“I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.”

People Thinking Film Situation Modern Horror Jokes Posts Really Great Horror Film

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“I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.”

Thinking Inspirational Motivational Games Video Storytelling Our Society Fads

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“I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.”

Ifs Thinking Should Jobs Responsible Producers

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“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.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Home Film Dinner Fantastic Chinese Greek Meals Italian Going Out Banquets

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“I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it's great, too.”

Thinking Bigs Fighting Effort Budgets Big Movie Fighting For Freedom

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“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.”

Thinking Proud Good Movie

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“I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.”

Thinking Important Real Film Storytelling Construction Scope

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“People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.”

People Thinking World Bigs Happens Decision Who We Are Big Things Decisions We Make Small Decisions

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“People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.”

People Thinking Next Waiting Scripts Desperate Hustle

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“In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.”

People Thinking Knows World Should Real Politician Real Life Corporations Scare

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“I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.”

Thinking Feels Deals Budgets Restriction

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“I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.”

Thinking Way Stills Belief Strong Powerful Bases Catholic Guilt Really Powerful Catholic Guilt

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“I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option."”

Thinking Choices Ultimate Cowardice

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“If we have a choice in how we die, I would say that's a privilege. I think we have a sort of prudish approach to death in the West, though certainly not in Mexico. In Mexico, it's a little bit freer. We're not so precious about it.”

Thinking Choices

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“I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.”

Thinking Believe Today Responsibility All Time Finding Yourself Disobedience

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“I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care much about the idea of normal - that's very abstract to me. I think that perfection is practically unattainable but imperfection is right at hand. So that's why I love monsters: because they represent a side of us we should actually embrace and celebrate.”

Thinking Care Church Perfection Embrace Saint Celebrate Abstract Imperfection

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“I think we live our lives seeking the shortest route, the closest parking space - everything quick, cheap, fast. And it's not better. Two-thirds of the satisfaction of getting something is the process of getting it.”

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“What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.”

Thinking Reason Age Imagination Balance Perception Myth Fantastic Downfall

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“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.”

Thinking Stories Seeing Return Devil Ghost Storytelling Gothic Graphic Backbone Sixth Sense Ghost Stories Resurgence

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“You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.”

Thinking Responsibility Finding Yourself Disobedience

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“"What makes a man a man?" a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.”

Thinking Men Way Ends Choices Mines Hellboy

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“I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online, but I play the solo version super fast. My family knows not to interrupt me the day they come out, they know it's a sacred date for me. I think my favorite visually, of all of the Call of Duty games -- even if it's not as sassy and high tech -- is World at War because. That game has some really incredible episodes in Berlin and the Japanese fields. It's really quite arresting for me, visually, and it was very immersive. But I love Modern Warfare, too.”

“I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.”

Thinking Should Two Different Feelings Bigs Past Deals Virtue Danger Movement Concern Sells Communicate Speed Fulfillment Beast Buying Big Deal Hippie Existentialist Beatnik Buying In

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

Thinking Power Quiet Screens

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“Well I think effects are tools”

Thinking Wells Effects Tools

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

Thinking Eye Horror

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“I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit”

Thinking Needs Movie Units

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“When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.”

People Thinking Way Circumstances Normal Happenings Extraordinary Mundane Unprepared

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About the Author

Born: October 9, 1964
Known for: Film director
Quotes: 182

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TrollhuntersRelated source material

Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the FaunRelated source material

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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other ObsessionsRelated source material

The Complete Strain Trilogy: The Strain, The Fall, The Night EternalRelated source material

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The Strain: Part 1, Sections 1 to 6 inclusiveRelated source material

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