Guillermo del Toro - biography

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

“But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense.  It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.”

“For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.”

“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 do.”

“For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.”

“Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.”

“I like John Carpenter.  I like some of his films more than others.”

“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.”

“I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.”

“I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.”

“I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.”

“The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.”

“What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.”

“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”

“In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert...  if it’s too loud, you’re too old.”

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

“I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.”

“I was directing before I knew it was called that.”

“I’d grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.”

“I’m a lapsed altar boy.”

“It’s only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.”

“There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.”

“Well I think effects are tools.”

“When I was a teenager there was no video in my country.  Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.”

Guillermo del Toro directed the following films:
Mimic (1997)
Blade II (2002)
Hellboy (2004)
El Laberinto del fauno (2006)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)


Guillermo del Toro contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Mimic (1997)
Hellboy (2004)
El Laberinto del fauno (2006)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)


Guillermo del Toro has appeared in the following films:
Puss in Boots (2011)