Guillermo del Toro

And I think that's our biggest failure in a way, you know.

Ones and zeros don't get the alchemy.

that you get with emotion and experience.

You get the information, but you don't get the alchemy of emotion, spirituality, and feeling.

I'm not saying it's impossible to replicate, but we have it readily available with the next generation of children.

And that's why the painful thing that Jacob Elordi and Victor enact is a father and son relationship that is very relatable in the film, very relatable and very moving by the end.

AI, particularly generative AI, is I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested.

I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak.

I really don't.

The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, what is your stance on AI?

My answer was very short.

I said, I'd rather die.

Oh, those are strong words.

Not for me.

I'm Mexican.

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.