Guillermo del Toro Quotes

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.

I did my first film when I was 14. I did not take films seriously. It was just a time pass for me then.

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

I made movies all the time when I was a kid.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

I started off making backyard movies. I think it began in fifth grade - I'd get the friends together and we'd make little home movies. I always wanted to make movies but I didn't know how. It was always something really fun to do.

When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.

The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was a remake of 'Poltergeist,' which I hadn't seen yet because my parents wouldn't allow me to. But I made my own version of it, and it starred my brother in a bed sheet.

Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

I would love to do a movie.

Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

Doing a movie is like eating five hundred canapes at a cocktail party - you're never really full. You don't feel as though you've eaten a meal, and yet you can't eat any more.

I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.