Quotes from Guillermo del Toro

He understands. He trusts. He, like she, has nothing left to lose.

When she opened the book, the white pages were so bright against the shadows that filled the forest and the words they offered granted shelter and comfort. The letters were like footprints in the snow, a wide white landscape untouched by pain, unharmed by memories too dark to keep, too sweet to let go of.

Your taste in film is a quest. You have a palate and you must refine it to match your essence. Never settle and never follow blindly.

Mercedes stepped back to her brother's side, the baby in her arms while Vidal stared at the watch's shattered face, its hands counting away his last moments as meticulously, as it had counted away all the years since his father's death.

That's what the books said, and didn't their tales feel so much truer than what adults pretended this world to be about? Only books talked about all the things adults didn't want you to ask about - Life. Death. Good and Evil. And what else truly mattered in life.

Death is a lover to be feared and there was only one way to overcome that fear - by being her executioner.

That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.

Todo cuanto tuviera que ver con Claire merecía ser repetido a cámara lenta, sin que las matemáticas fueran una excepción

All the words of love would turn into weapons against the ones they were supposed to comfort.

No, vanity - that was his weakness: the urge to constantly prove to himself and to others that nothing and no one could withstand him and that his heart didn't know either fear nor pity. Liar. He was afraid of everything. Especially himself.

It's always just a few who know where to look and how to listen, that is true. But for the best stories, a few are just enough.

And it is said, that the princess Moanna returned to her father's kingdom, and reigned there with justice and a kind heart for many centuries. That she was loved by her people and left behind small traces of her time on earth visible only to those who know where to look.

I wanted to show that men and women can be friends without having a relationship.

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

Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The Monolith Monsters.' I watched all the Universal library.

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.

You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

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.

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.