Guillermo del Toro

I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make. ”

For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. ”

Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character. ”

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. ”

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. ”

I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child. ”

Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood. ”

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child. ”

I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good. ”

When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit. ”