Guillermo del Toro Quotes

I really like iZotope Trash, which is a great plug-in for distortion, as is Ohmicide, which I love. It's an absolutely crazy multiband distortion, compression, EQ and filter, which pretty much lets you do anything.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

Technology is a very important part of cinema.

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

I always loved experimenting in film.

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

I particularly love watching 'Hardware' with a young audience.

What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

Well, I don't really use MIDI that much. But I do record audio around me a lot, and just layer it up and see what effect it has, without any aforethought.

I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

Although technology has been playing a key role in filmmaking, I feel there are plenty of opportunities in other branches of filmdom.

I think as storytelling has changed, you know, it's kind of turned into kind of hyper-reality movies.

There's this weird game called 'Blueberry Garden.' For that game an artist recorded some piano music, but evidently he only had a really terrible microphone on top of the piano, and I really liked it and wanted to experiment with that. So, I made piano recording and really mangled it, and kept experimenting with the technique.

Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.