“As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it ...” — Guillermo del Toro Quote

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms.

I was directing before I knew it was called that.

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

I recently discovered that Karl Lagerfeld sketches every single design in the Chanel collections. This made me so happy. I know it seems obvious, that the head of a fashion house such as Chanel would do this, but it isn't always the way.