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Quotes from Guillermo del Toro

Innumerable stains splashed wildly against the floor, the walls, the iron stanchions … everywhere. Fet recoiled in disgust. "This is all …?" "It is excrement," said Setrakian. "The creatures will shit while they eat." Fet looked around in amazement.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Las cosas que hacemos por amor son desagradables, dementes, llenas de sudor y remordimiento —caminó hacia Edith, quien se contuvo para no gritar. —Este amor te quema y te mutila y te retuerce de adentro hacia fuera. Es un amor monstruoso y nos transforma en monstruos.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Only her master knew her true name, for in the Magic Kingdom to know a name was to own the being that carried it.
~ Guillermo del Toro
we welcome all who are willing to follow we welcome the fish we welcome the birds we welcome the insects we welcome the four-legs we welcome the two-legs we welcome you /// come with us
~ Guillermo del Toro
Gus called Felix's name one last time, as though saying his name would snap him out of it, would miraculously bring Felix back… But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Hidden in every limitation lies an opportunity. And for every obstacle you face, there is a simple and perfect solution, creatively. And your work is to find it. Where it gets tough is you need to fucking find it in five minutes.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Normally my clients were my mother, my grandmother, and my dad, and I would sell them the issues with a great color cover. There was a story I remember called 'The Invader,' and it had an invisible dome covering a city, with a giant tentacled monster eating everybody in sight, and people trying to drill a hole in the dome. And I did these epic Prismacolor pencil illustrations and sold out the three issues to my captive audience.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Užtemimas jiems buvo nuostabumo priešingyb?. Atrod? papras?iausiai teisinga, kad dangus ir Dievas pamin?jo j? sielvart?.
~ Guillermo del Toro
And I really loved sculpting. My brother and I would do full human figures with clay and Plasticine—liver, intestines, the heart—fill them with ketchup and throw them from the roof. So I was an artistic but very morbid kid.
~ Guillermo del Toro
We feel immortal when we are young. Or maybe we just don't care that much about death yet?
~ Guillermo del Toro
He is hearing the music, yes, but he's also feeling it, reflecting it, and from that reflection Elisa can hear and feel the music as she never has before.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Los fantasmas existen. Es todo lo que sé. Se desvanecen, junto con el pasado, como la niebla en plena luz del día… a su paso, dejan enseñanzas simbólicas. Certezas simbólicas.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Sometimes even the healers are turned into butchers by the darkness of this world.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Gus wasn't ready to drink the Kool-Aid yet, but he was ready to commit to the final leg of this journey.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Another wide room, a library. The shelves bulged with aged book spines and unbound manuscripts of old, flaking paper, as well as folios and parchment scrolls. These were rare books indeed, most with Latin or French titles,
~ Guillermo del Toro
The doctor's code is, 'First - do no harm.' The politician's code is, 'First - go on television.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Man should be better than monsters. Ah, but who are the monsters?
~ Guillermo del Toro
Sometimes the objects we hold dear give away who we are even more than the people we love. The glass of the watch had cracked in the hand of Vidal's father at the very moment he died, which his son took as proof that things could survive death if only one kept them clean and in perfect order.
~ Guillermo del Toro
He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom button on the wall. "Betty, I distinctly smell sewage. Could you get a plumber out here ASAP?" Several curly hairs fluttered in the air after he was gone. I clutched at the arm of the dentist chair. "This isn't a joke, Tub! I'm in trouble. We're all in trouble, the whole town, the whole world! You have no clue. You have no idea what kind of things we're dealing with here. There's a whole land of --
~ Guillermo del Toro
Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.
~ Guillermo del Toro
It was well known that she was a junk-food fiend. It was probably what kept her from the waif physique of the most popular girls. Personally I didn't care what king of saturated fats and granulated sugars were to blame for that excellent figure.
~ Guillermo del Toro
As a kid, I dreamed of having a house with secret passages and a room where it rained 24 hours a day
~ Guillermo del Toro
Zombie Sky. No: Zombies of the Eclipse. Zombies of the Occultation. Occult Zombies from the Planet Moon!
~ Guillermo del Toro
An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?
~ Guillermo del Toro