Quotes from Guillermo del Toro

Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It's not easy.

With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.

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

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

I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time.

I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me.

As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.'

There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.

I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters.

When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.

I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere.

Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope.

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do.

As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing.

I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.

I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms.

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

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

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

I see myself as a perennial expatriate because, frankly, I don't think I fit comfortably in any conventional form of filmmaking, and I feel at the same time, depending on the project, I fit into many different ones.

I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects.