Guillermo del Toro Quotes

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.

Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I have wondered about time all my life.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

I don't like allegory.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.