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. – Guillermo del Toro
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. – Guillermo del Toro
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. – Guillermo del Toro
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. – Guillermo del Toro
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. – Guillermo del Toro
I’d grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. – Guillermo del Toro
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert… if it’s too loud, you’re too old. – Guillermo del Toro
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. – Guillermo del Toro
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. – Guillermo del Toro
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. – Guillermo del Toro
For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. – Guillermo del Toro
