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Guillermo del Toro [1964-0] Mexican

Rank: 101
Director, Film director

Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. In his filmmaking career, del Toro has alternated between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces, such as the gothic horror film The Devil's Backbone, and Pan's Labyrinth, and more mainstream American action movies, such as the vampire superhero action film Blade II, the supernatural superhero film Hellboy, its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and the science fiction monster film Pacific Rim.

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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.	Love	101
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.		102
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.		103
I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.		104
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.		105
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.		106
I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.		107
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.		108
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.		109
I'm a lapsed altar boy.		110
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.		111
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.		112
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.		113
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.	Attitude	114
Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.		115
Well I think effects are tools.		116
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.		117
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.		118
I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.		119
I was directing before I knew it was called that.		120
There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.		121
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.		122
I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.		123
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.		124

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