{"author":"Guillermo del Toro","author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["experience","introspective","life","life-experience","life-experiences","marriage","musing","musings","science","statement-of-fact"],"id":335,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"Trolls have existed on this planet for as long as humans. This is what I was told and what I translated to Tub. The first mention of them in recorded history is from ninth-century Norway, when the nefarious creatures began showing up in song, verse, and bedtime stories to keep misbehaving children in line. According to Norse folklore, trolls are one of the Dark Beings, the purest embodiments of evil, and they scurried from between the toes of Ymir, the mythic six-headed Frost Giant whose murdered body became the universe in which we live; his bones became the mountains, his teeth boulders, and so forth.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["horror","middle-grade-fantasy","trolls"],"id":16371,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["good","dialogue","through "],"id":51038,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the beautiful, pure, eternal side of the human spirit, monsters need to represent a more tangible, more mortal side of being human: aging, decay, darkness and so forth. And I believe that monsters originally, when we were cavemen and you know, sitting around a fire, we needed to explain the birth of the sun and the death of the moon and the phases of the moon and rain and thunder. And we invented creatures that made sense of the world: a serpent that ate the sun, a creature that ate the moon, a man in the moon living there, things like that. And as we became more and more sophisticated and created sort of a social structure, the real enigmas started not to be outside. The rain and the thunder were logical now. But the real enigmas became social. All those impulses that we were repressing: cannibalism, murder, these things needed an explanation. The sex drive, the need to hunt, the need to kill, these things then became personified in monsters. Werewolves, vampires, ogres, this and that. I feel that monsters are here in our world to help us understand it. They are an essential part of a fable.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["fables","life","monsters","problems","stories"],"id":56845,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["cinemaphilia","film","film-passion","films","guillermo-del-toro","movies"],"id":87545,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["writing"],"id":138800,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["filmmaking","travel"],"id":140032,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["quiet","think","things "],"id":192502,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"THE THING WAS AN EXPERT IN HORROR, BUT THIS HUMAN HORROR INDEED EXCEEDED ANY OTHER POSSIBLE FATE. NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT WAS WITHOUT MERCY, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS ACTED UPON RATIONALLY AND WITHOUT COMPULSION. IT WAS A CHOICE. THE KILLING WAS UNRELATED TO THE LARGE WAR, AND IT SERVED NO OTHER PURPOSE THEN EVIL. MEN CHOSE TO DO THIS TO OTHER MEN AND INVENTED REASONS AND PLACES AND MYTHS IN ORDER TO SATISFY THEIR DESIRE IN A LOGICAL AND METHODICAL WAY.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["death-camps","horror","the-strain","world-war-2"],"id":199382,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["biology","god","science"],"id":230246,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}