Guillermo del Toro Quotes

I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.

Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

I'm excited and nervous about every film; once I understand the medium fully, I'll relax.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

When you are on the set, you have different departments - you got camera, sound, props, hair, makeup, catering, executives. Imagine each one of those are spokes on the wagon wheel. All the spokes come into a hub: the hub is the director. The wood the spokes go into are distribution and promotion; the steel wheel around the hub is the film. None of these have anything in common with each other.

I have a couple ideas that I'm banging on for a film. It's strange, you make a movie and, all of a sudden, your agents are calling you and saying, "Hey, I know these guys with some money who are looking to finance something." You're like, "Oh, god, now I've gotta come up with something really amazing."

I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.

Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.

I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.