Guillermo del Toro

And I had a really profound moment to be able to reconcile this knowledge with a beautiful talk with my own kids and stop this lineage of...

And, you know, fathers are a big shadow, particularly in Latin American families, I imagine.

It is—my father was always a mystery, and he was really funny and warm, but by turns he was also aloof and distant and had a lot of problem—

Even when he came back from the kidnapping, he was taken 72 days.

And I said, I'm going to get to know him real well.

And our conversations never lasted more than a few minutes.

And he just couldn't.

And I didn't understand that.

And I realized that, particularly with my profession, I had a huge alibi to repeat this distance.

And I unfortunately couldn't, I believe, on time to...

to really change it and become a very dedicated father.

Yeah, well, it was the constant threat and the PTSD, etc.

But a lot of the moments that happened during that kidnapping are actually obliquely reflected in the film.

I tried to make it an autobiography of the soul for me.

Yes.

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.