Guillermo del Toro
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, no, that's completely original.
That's original?
Yes.
To me, the myths are very related.
The two biggest mysteries in the Bible for me growing up, and I am a lapsed Catholic, but the two mysteries were the book of Job, in which man questions God, why do bad things happen to good people?
And the answer, basically, of God is, why not?
Well, that's the way God put it.
He says, who are you to question my wisdom?
You were not there when I created the world, basically.
Yeah, with the holy water, yeah.
Well, you know, I'm very used to not fitting.
I'm always looking through the window.
into the world, a little bit with a set of thoughts and a set of principles and ideas that don't necessarily conform.
My grandmother was in great pain that I would draw monsters all day.
I would talk about the Bible, asking questions that were maybe too poignant, but we loved each other.
salient in my movies.
No matter how different we were, we can love each other.
And that is, again, in Frankenstein.
There's Frankenstein in all my movies, from Kronos all the way to Pinocchio.
Every single movie, I hesitate to think of one that doesn't have elements of it.