Guillermo del Toro Quotes

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

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

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.

There are a lot of period movies where they say, ‘This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.’ And it’s done in like a 1950s or 60s style.

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

The only true immortality is when you don’t care if you die. The moment you stop giving credence to gain is when you become invulnerable to pain.

There is beautiful in the grotesque.

Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn’t just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

Never fly commercial. That’s the moral of this story.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn’t work.

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.