Guillermo del Toro Quotes

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

Movies were my first love.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

I was a huge fan of monster movies.

I probably saw 'Jaws' when I was 10.

Convincing Robert Englund to come out of retirement to play Freddy Krueger one last time is a true bucket-list moment for me as a writer. I've been a longtime obsessive fan, collecting Freddy artwork and action figures.

I have only one passion in life - cinema.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

I have been passionate about cinema from my childhood.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

As a kid I was into horror. I loved horror. Horror was huge. I was always into horror. Goosebumps for me was massive growing up. Horror for me was always a big thing.

When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!

Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.

I read a lot, and I watch a lot of TV and film now. That's my homework. Like I said, my Netflix. I've watched Aliens a couple times this week, Dawn Of The Dead. And that's what's really cool too. It's nostalgia, because I saw these shows, these movies, a lot of them, when I was a kid, and they're different now when you watch them. I'm like, "Wow, I can't believe my family let me watch that," and "I must have missed that the first time around."

Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.