Guillermo del Toro Quotes

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

I love doing movies that touch people's lives.

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It's always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It's just a special place.

The second that I watched 'Glee' with my brother, I loved it. I fell in love with it and I saw myself there.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

I remember I was unsure about doing 'Shameless.' I'd never acted in anything so commercial. I read the script in the garden with my mum, Mary. She said it's filthy dirty, but she said these people have love and sex and nothing else. That made me take the role.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

I've seen everything from 'Wicked' to 'The Book Of Mormon,' and I don't make any bones of the fact that I love both. But 'Les Mis' is not only my favorite musical, but it's also my favorite story. I love the book, which I read as a kid, and I identified so much with Jean Valjean.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their life and soul. The books I love are me, have become me.

I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.

Oh yeah; I love when I'm writing something that makes me cry - that's so cool. If it got me to do that, it's going to get someone else to do that.

I didn't find it difficult to live in the 'Inherent Vice' world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

There's a little bit of me in everybody that I play.