Guillermo del Toro

"The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7."

"Para mí estas cosas son como una cebolla, entre más capas descubres, más vas llorando. No hay vencedores en las guerras, sólo sangre y vencidos."

"Lo que me interesa del fascismo es justamente que es un hoyo negro de la voluntad. Es un sistema que no necesariamente es único, pero absuelve la brutalidad, absuelve la falta de moral y absuelve la decisión propia. Cuando te dicen “Tú puedes matar a esta gente porque que son judíos, rojos o homosexuales, ¡lo que sea!” En ese mundo puedes permitir una acción brutal en base a un consejo colectivo, eso es lo que me asusta."

"Lo que más interesante es en la naturaleza existen dos especies, unicamente dos especies que son expansionistas: el hombre y los insectos. Las demás especies son territoriales. El insecto es devorador, expansionista, hasta que se siegue expandiendo y no le importa. Y el hombre es así... las dos especies que van a acabar peleándose por el mundo van a ser insectos y hombres."

"There is beautiful in the grotesque."

"I never liked horses, but after this scene, I hate them. I hate them, they are nasty animals, and I hate cows. Cows are evil. Cows are absolutely evil, I tell you. They look, like, inoffensive, but they're perverted creatures, and so are horses, they are absolutely evil motherfuckers."

"We're here to entertain you while you wonder why the fuck this channel has two asshole talking while you're trying to watch your movie."

"(Seeing character with a wig which the producer insisted he try in a delete scene): "Look, that is Peter Frankfurt's fucking doing! Explain yourself! Look at that fucker! It's fucking Michael Bolton!""

"'Less is more' my ass. I mean, 'less is more' on atmospheric movies. In ACTION/horror movies, more is more baby!"

"Peter Frankfurt (producer), discussing a stuntman: "He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch."

"Del Toro: "Needless to say, I wanted another take.""

"Success is fucking up on your own terms."

"The carnies know they’re carnies, [t]hey don’t try to be anything else. It’s the people in the city who pretend they are judges and philanthropists and industrialists. True rot comes when you con yourself."

"Guillermo Del Toro is the most challenging of directors in the fantasy field because he invents from scratch, or adapts into his own vision. He has made six features since his debut at 29 with Cronos, and I have admired, even loved, all of them."

"[He] is, in my opinion, the new Orson Welles."