Guillermo del Toro Quotes

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.

Don't live your life to please other people.

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

There's no pressure; like Kate said, it is about carving your own future. No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes; what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny, and Kate will do a very good job of that.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

I think it's very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things... they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you're going.