When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the complex nature of morality and innocence, particularly in the context of childhood beliefs and the discovery of deeper truths.
Guillermo Del Toro's quote delves into the struggle of fitting into conventional societal or religious ideals during childhood. It highlights a profound realization that, instead of purely identifying with traditional heroes or saints, he found beauty and grace in misunderstood figures, like monsters, who represent innocence sacrificed by the flaws of humanity. This perspective challenges the binary notions of good and evil, revealing the complexity of human experience.
In practice
In a discussion about how classic literature often portrays misunderstood characters, one might quote Del Toro to emphasize the beauty in complexity.
I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.
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.
If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?
Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.
Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?
There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science.
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
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