Guillermo del Toro
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I said, I'd rather die.
Oh, those are strong words.
But I think, Terry, that even when a human sings a song that has already been recorded six, seven times, they're filtering their experience, their life.
I often think of Johnny Cash singing Hurt, the Trent Reznor song.
and making it entirely his own, or Joe Cocker singing The Beatles.
That's not aversion.
That's not remixing.
That is filtering through alchemical pain and experience and work of art into making it your own.
I'm a huge fan of death.
I'm a groupie for death.
I think it's the metronome of our existence.
And without rhythm, there is no melody.
It is the metronome of death that makes us value the compass of the beautiful music.
I'm going to say this comes when my father was taken every day
And I used to see the sun rising and resented.
And I said, the sun doesn't care about my pain.