Guillermo del Toro
Filmmaker & Author
Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican filmmaker, producer, and author. Most recently, he won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Director for The Shape of Water.
Directing doesn’t just mean directing feature films anymore. Almost everyone has access to video recorders these days, and they can begin directing from their iPhones.
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The only monsters that have scared the filmmaker are the ones from “Alien” and “Phantom of the Opera.” But he is “mortally afraid” of cops, big churches, and politicians.
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Monster creation is not a mechanical or algebraic process. “What is important is that you riff, you riff by instinct, and you riff with the best you can.”
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The filmmaker grew up Catholic but is now agnostic. He prefers to abandon himself to the embrace, or perhaps indifference, of the Universe.
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Things are constantly flying through your hands as you’re trying to shape the product, says the filmmaker.
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The vampires from “Twilight” and other recent shows have been “defanged” and combined with the bad boy romantic lead myth from gothic fiction. The filmmaker interprets this as a sign […]
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Western culture teaches us to understand the world in terms of binaries. That’s why the myths we’ve created to explain the world need both angels and demons.
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A conversation with the filmmaker and author.
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