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Guillermo Del Toro Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“Today. Today...at the edge of our hope, at the end of our time, we have chosen not only to believe in ourselves, but in each other. Today there is not a man nor woman in here that shall stand alone. Not today. Today we face the monsters that are at our door and bring the fight to them! Today, we are canceling the apocalypse!”
— Stacker Pentecost, Pacific Rim
Tagged: Hope, Belief, Apocalypse
“One day I'll remember. Remember everything that happened: the good, the bad, those who survived... and those that did not.”
— Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Tagged: Memories, Survival, dragon movies
“Dori: Was that an earthquake?

Balin: That, my lad, was a dragon.”
— Dori, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Tagged: Earthquake, Dragon, dragon movies
“I basically was roaming through a bookstore, in San Antonio, Texas. I was in my early teens, and I came upon this volume that had an irresistible title: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.”
— Guillermo Del Toro, ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ — What To Expect From The Film Adaption
“We’re next. We’re next.”
— Chuck Steinberg, Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark
Tagged: Fear
“The nearest house is miles away, and the closest town is a half day's walk.”
— Sir Thomas Sharpe, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Old Houses, Ghosts, Isolated, Remote
“[From trailer] A house as old as this one becomes, in time, a living thing. It starts holding onto things...keeping them alive when they shouldn't be. Some of them are good; some of them bad...Some should never be spoken about again.”
— Sir Thomas Sharpe, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Old Houses, Ghosts
“[from trailer] Where I come from, ghosts are not to be taken lightly.”
— Sir Thomas Sharpe, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Ghosts
“The more the house sinks, the worse it gets. We must do something about it.”
— Lady Lucille Sharpe, Crimson Peak
Tagged: sinking house, Proactive, getting worse
“But the horror... The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all.”
— Lady Lucille Sharpe, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Horror, Love, Sweat, monstrous, monsters, ugly, Mad
“Lucille Sharpe: She knows everything. She stopped drinking her tea, but I poisoned the porridge.

Thomas Sharpe: Lucille, stop it! Do we have to do this? Must we?

Lucille Sharpe: Yes.”
— Lady Lucille Sharpe, Crimson Peak
Tagged: poisoning, tea, Porridge
“Edith Cushing: [entering his mansion] Goodness. How many rooms are there?

Thomas Sharpe: I don't know. Would you like to count them?”
— Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Mansion, Sarcasm
“Edith Cushing: [about portrait of Lady Sharpe] She looks quite...

Lucille Sharpe: Horrible? Yes. It's an excellent likeness.”
— Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Portraits, insults
“Thomas Sharpe: [about to dance] I've always closed my eyes to things that made me uncomfortable. It makes everything easier.

Edith Cushing: I don't want to close my eyes. I want to keep them open.”
— Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Open Eyes, Closed eyes, Dancing
“The first time I saw one I was 10 years old. It was my mother's. Black cholera had taken her. So Father ordered a closed casket, asked me not to look. There were to be no parting kisses. No goodbyes. No last words. That is, until the night she came back.”
— Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Ghosts, funeral, Closed Casket, haunting
“Ghosts are real, that much I know. I've seen them all my life...”
— Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Ghosts, Emotion, Drive, Loss, Revenge, Love
“Thomas Sharpe: You're so...different.

Edith Cushing: From who?

Thomas Sharpe: ...everyone.”
— Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak
Tagged: different, unique
“Edith Cushing: You're monsters. Both of you!

Lucille Sharpe: Funny. That's the last thing Mother said, too.”
— Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak
Tagged: monsters, mother
“Ghosts are real. This much I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime. But there are others, others that hold on to an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or love. Those, they never go away.”
— Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Ghosts, Forever Here, Ghosts Are Real
“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”
— Guillermo Del Toro, The Monsters of Hellboy 2
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls. In that, it is no different, or less controversial, than humor, and no less intimate than sex.”
— Guillermo Del Toro, Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
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