Guillermo del Toro Quotes

'Abel' is about the father I don't want to be and the boy I used to be.

I've changed a lot because I am a father.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there's also that fear, 'Oh, I don't want to be like my father,' or, 'I hope my kid doesn't turn out like me.' You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.

When I was a boy I was my father.

My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me. Because when he came into the picture, my priorities changed. I can risk possibly being incarcerated because the only person pays for it is me. I know that if I'm not physically available to take care of him, nobody else will. I want to have the relationship with him that me and my father never had.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.

Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two kids, I see them and I feel like I see things in them; they awaken the inner child in you.

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.