Guillermo del Toro Quotes

A good movie humanizes people.

My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...

I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I'm concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all reach for our best.

I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.

I'm just looking for touching characters.

I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.

There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people.

I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in people who are generally seen as tough guys. To me, when a hip-hop musician always plays tough, I find it annoying because I know they're not really like that - there's something deeper and vulnerable. There has to be, because they're human beings.

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.