What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn’t scary to me. It’s like comedy – comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there’ll always be somebody who’ll say, ‘I don’t think that was funny.’ And it’s the same with things that are meant to be scary. Guillermo del Toro Read Quote
When I did ‘Mimic,’ it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it’s not the movie I set out to do. Guillermo del Toro Read Quote
I’m very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I’ve been able to make. Guillermo del Toro Read Quote
As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I’m not directing. Guillermo del Toro Read Quote
I love producing other people’s work, but presenting is a very serious business. It’s a marriage. Guillermo del Toro Read Quote
I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron. Guillermo del Toro Read Quote
I see myself as a perennial expatriate because, frankly, I don’t think I fit comfortably in any conventional form of filmmaking, and I feel at the same time, depending on the project, I fit into many different ones. Guillermo del Toro Read Quote
If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call ‘Hollywood’ movies and truly bizarre, what you would call ‘arthouse’ movies. Guillermo del Toro Read Quote
Shooting a horror story with kids, I always explain really simply. They may be scary to watch, but they’re a lot of fun to shoot. You know, the kids have a great time shooting these movies. Whether you let them watch it is another matter. Guillermo del Toro Read Quote
