The New Yorker has a great article on director and creator auteur Guillermo del Toro. It is, as most New Yorker articles are, quite lengthy but gives a good sense of the man's history and how his obsession with creatures came about. It also explores his eighteen-room house dedicated to memorabilia from the horror / creature genre.. and it's not even his residence! The article is filled with quotes that everyone should be able to find a bit inspiring:

“I don’t see myself ever doing a ‘normal’ movie,” del Toro said. “I love the creation of these things—I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.”

I think everyone should be able to get behind that mentality.

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