Guillermo del Toro Quotes

If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

Believe it or not, there are some things that I have written that would be kind of a dream to make. Hopefully, I will get to finance them... There is something that I wrote called 'Demon's Flare' which would kind of be a dream come true.

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

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

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

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

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

About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.

Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design. Then you submit those and the budget, and it's out of your hands.

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.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.