Guillermo Del Toro Quotes

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

Producing is great because you learn.

With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.

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

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

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

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

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.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

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.

Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you're enjoying it.

Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)

It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? To be dragged under?

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.

Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.

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