When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.- Guillermo del Toro
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
Well I think effects are tools.
They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.
There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we have created.
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you are too old.
I am a lapsed altar boy.
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 was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.
I was directing before I knew it was called that.
I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
