I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option."
Guillermo del ToroThe underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.
Guillermo del ToroI try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by other movies, because then you just are talking about movies in movies. I try to talk about movies that are culturally and spiritually a little more diverse.
Guillermo del ToroIn the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the fleshโ whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perishโ thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.
Guillermo del ToroIn a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.
Guillermo del ToroOliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When youยre delivering your lines, heยll stop you and tell you some kind of riddle about the character and you have to go away and figure that out. If youยre hoping for him to give you all the answers, then youยre in for a long day.
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