Guillermo del Toro
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.Collection: Cities
For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up Its a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If youre not, he pokes at you until you react. Hes very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.Collection: Fun
Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".Collection: Kids
I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.Collection: Book
for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.Collection: Blessing
They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you doCollection: Faithful
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screenCollection: Power
I started when I was eight, doing super 8 filmsCollection: Eight
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogueCollection: Attitude
At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."Collection: Mom
I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.Collection: Block
You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Fighting
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.Collection: Drinking
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.Collection: Writing
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.Collection: Directors
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.Collection: Curves
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.Collection: Directors
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.Collection: Cutting
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.Collection: Fun
I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Home
You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.Collection: Goal
I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Latin
If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.Collection: Independent
If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.Collection: Film
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.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: America
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.Collection: Pain
When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.Collection: America
I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.Collection: Book
My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."Collection: Monsters
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Pain
Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.Collection: Scary
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.Collection: Thinking
Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -Collection: Mad
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than othersCollection: Film
Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.Collection: Sorry
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?".Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Eye
I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'.Collection: Dark
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unitCollection: Movie
I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horrorCollection: Eye
Well I think effects are toolsCollection: Thinking
You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.Collection: Sometimes
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.Collection: Shoes