Guillermo del Toro Quotes

Ever since my first film, I had more producers than scripts. And I've realised that a certain project requires a certain kind of producer for it to be made well.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

You have to pace yourself. As a producer, you start with a concept and shepherd it through the script to the delivery of the film. It's a very long journey for an hour and 40 minutes of movie.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

Filmmaking is all about people management.

Even as an actor, much before I turned director or producer, I was somebody who was very involved with every film I was doing. I would pretty much be a part of a project from the time they toss the ball to the marketing. It's very simple.

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

It takes a long time to get a film made.