Quotes About Del Toro

I was very attracted to doing 'The Wolverine' in Japan because that's my favorite chapter in the story of Wolverine. But I'm not a superhero guy.

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

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

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

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 love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity.

I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.

My Hellboy is modeled on my father in some ways: a guy who's been in the Korean War, and he's traveled, and he's done a lot of stuff, and he's kind of got a been there, done that attitude. He's also been in the world. Del Toro's change was to have Hellboy bottled up in a room and mooning over the girl he can't have.

The movie has to have some essence where you connect with it. The reason I'm doing 'Blade 2' and not 'Alien 4' is because I connect with the universe of 'Blade.' I don't connect with the universe of 'Alien.' Besides, I already did 'Alien 4': It's called 'Mimic.'

I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books.

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

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.

I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!'

The entry wound cried a single tear of blood. Such an insignificant wound, but Death was nesting in it.

I guess a vampire doesn't have much need for good hygiene.

Del Toro wearing sculpted and molded gelatin makeup, including fake hair and acrylic dentures and gums.

But I think it is a hopeful story. Is not some underwater paradise preferable to a life of poverty and incest and violence?

El laberinto del fauno era una gran prueba de que la fantasía puede ser a su vez poética y política, y eso es una herramienta perfecta para comprender la realidad fantástica de nuestra existencia.

pulled Jimmy the Bishop's audio.

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.