Guillermo del Toro
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Exactly.
You're looking at it.
I mean, that's when I fell in love with Gothic romance, and I couldn't have been more than four.
Why do I know it?
Because I remember the house we were living in where I was born, and my father won the lottery, the national lottery, in 1969, which would make me five years old when we moved from that house to a giant house in the outskirts of the city.
Yeah, in 1969.
How much money did he win?
$6 million in 1969, which is the entire budget of Planet of the Apes.
Completely.
I mean, completely.
We moved into a house and lived a very sort of strange life.
I mean, we had all sorts of pets.
We had eagles, a pet lion, 30 dogs, deer.
You had a zoo.
Yeah, we had it like a zoo.
I could go like Danny in The Shining.
I could go on my tricycle for hours in the long corridors.
Sometimes, like a magic realism novel, I would go for weeks without seeing a single adult.
I would find food on the fridge.
I would find clean clothes on my drawers.