Guillermo del Toro

Because the movie is about choice.

It's essentially about the power of choice, even if it's executed by, or especially if it's executed by an 11-year-old kid.

Fascism is the removal of that choice.

You know, the absolute nullification of personality.

And I thought it was very important to show a masculine world of basically destruction and a very feminine world of creation clashing.

Well, it was curiously enough, on a Sunday after Catholic Mass, we came back home and then we would watch horror movies on Channel 6 all day.

And it was the first time I saw Frankenstein.

And the moment Boris Karloff crossed the threshold,

I had an epiphany.

I had a St.

Paul on the road to Damascus kind of experience.

I realized I understood my faith or my dogmas better through Frankenstein than through Sunday Mass.

I saw the resurrection of the flesh, the Immaculate Conception, ecstasy, stigmata.

Everything made sense, and I decided at age seven that the creature of Frankenstein was going to be my personal avatar and my personal messiah.

It was a really profound transformation, and it made an impression that lasted my whole life.

No, no, no.

There are so many things that are in the novel.

That is one of them.

When the creature meets Victor in the frozen north, he says, well, this is what happened to me.

And he proceeds to tell him his itinerary.