Guillermo del Toro

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death. ”

Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none. ”

I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully. ”

I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams. ”

I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms. ”

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. ”

I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own. ”

You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm. ”

I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. ”

Well I think effects are tools. ”