Guillermo del Toro Quotations

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.

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.

Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

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

The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

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.

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.