Guillermo del Toro

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

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He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom button on the wall. Betty, I distinctly smell sewage. Could you get a plumber out here ASAP? Several curly hairs fluttered in the air after he was gone. I clutched at the arm of the dentist chair. This isn't a joke, Tub! I'm in trouble. We're all in trouble, the whole town, the whole world! You have no clue. You have no idea what kind of things we're dealing with here. There's a whole land of --

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I'm serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or anyone else, about the city's pesky troll problem, and you're not exactly going to get a lot of people saying, 'Gee, thanks for the warning.' It'll spread faster than mono. You think things are tough for us now? Jim, this will be the end. I'm sorry if you had a crazy nightmare. I really am. But I can't let you ruin our lives.

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Is it...can we...is it safe? Tub checked the lot but he seemed unconcerned. Coach Lawrence nabbed him for practice. We live to fight another day, soldier. No...I mean, the thing...is it...? Tub frowned. The thing. Hmmm. Can you be more specific? I clutched at the bumper and raised myself to unsteady feet. I patted the truck bed, taking solace in the cake of dust. It was real; I was not caught in a nightmare. I smeared the dust with my fingers and smelled it. If you lick that, we're no longer friends, Tub said.

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Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

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Success is fucking up on your own terms.

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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.

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Success is fucking up on your own terms.

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Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

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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.

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He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom button on the wall. Betty, I distinctly smell sewage. Could you get a plumber out here ASAP? Several curly hairs fluttered in the air after he was gone. I clutched at the arm of the dentist chair. This isn't a joke, Tub! I'm in trouble. We're all in trouble, the whole town, the whole world! You have no clue. You have no idea what kind of things we're dealing with here. There's a whole land of --

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Is it...can we...is it safe? Tub checked the lot but he seemed unconcerned. Coach Lawrence nabbed him for practice. We live to fight another day, soldier. No...I mean, the thing...is it...? Tub frowned. The thing. Hmmm. Can you be more specific? I clutched at the bumper and raised myself to unsteady feet. I patted the truck bed, taking solace in the cake of dust. It was real; I was not caught in a nightmare. I smeared the dust with my fingers and smelled it. If you lick that, we're no longer friends, Tub said.

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I'm serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or anyone else, about the city's pesky troll problem, and you're not exactly going to get a lot of people saying, 'Gee, thanks for the warning.' It'll spread faster than mono. You think things are tough for us now? Jim, this will be the end. I'm sorry if you had a crazy nightmare. I really am. But I can't let you ruin our lives.

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Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

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I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology.

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I like monsters, and when the monster is a superhero, it's a byproduct. Like Hellboy, the Hulk, Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, Sandman, Constantine, Demon, Dr. Strange, Spectre, Deadman. Those are the superheroes I followed as a kid religiously.

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The way I love monsters is a Mexican way of loving monsters, which is that I am not judgmental. The Anglo way of seeing things is that monsters are exceptional and bad, and people are good. But in my movies, creatures are taken for granted.

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The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my first ten years of life, you know.

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Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope.

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I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere.

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