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Guillermo del Toro Quotes

born 1964 Mexico

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican film director, best known for Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Shape of Water (2017) and Pinocchio (2022).

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"Success is fucking up on your own terms."

"The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7."

For me these things are like an onion, as you discover more layers, you cry even more. There are no winners in wars, only blood and losers.

The carnies know they’re carnies, [t]hey don’t try to be anything else. It’s the people in the city who pretend they are judges and philanthropists and industrialists. True rot comes when you con yourself.

Peter Frankfurt (producer), discussing a stuntman: "He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

"We're here to entertain you while you wonder why the fuck this channel has two asshole talking while you're trying to watch your movie."

"There is beautiful in the grotesque."

"'Less is more' my ass. I mean, 'less is more' on atmospheric movies. In ACTION/horror movies, more is more baby!"

With producer Peter Frankfurt on the Blade II DVD commentary

(Seeing character with a wig which the producer insisted he try in a delete scene): "Look, that is Peter Frankfurt's fucking doing! Explain yourself! Look at that fucker! It's fucking Michael Bolton!"

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Guillermo del Toro (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.