You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the beauty of someone who carries sadness but can bring joy through their smile.
In this quote, Guillermo Del Toro highlights the complexity of human emotions, revealing that a person can be beautiful and endearing despite experiencing sadness. The promise of meeting someone who has both melancholy and the capacity to bring joy underscores the notion that love can be found in imperfect beings, and that genuine connections often come from understanding and appreciating both their struggles and their happiness.
In practice
During a talk about the complexities of relationships, this quote could illustrate how beauty comes from our experiences.
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.
But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.
When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)
He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.
This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
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