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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I'm a lapsed altar boy.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

Guillermo del Toro