Guillermo del Toro

And I prayed for decades that I could make that moment come to life on a film before anyone.

And fortunately, nobody did it.

You are absolutely right.

The first film I saw was...

was William Wyler's Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier.

I went with my mother to a cinema downtown that was super cheap and showed very old movies.

It was really gothic atmosphere with rain and the moors and Olivier.

It's basically a ghost story in many ways, Wuthering Heights.

And I fell asleep full of fear.

I dreamt my dream and woke up in the theater with the movie still playing.

So exactly, my first movie was part of a lucid dream.

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.

$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.