I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me.
Interpretation
The quote critiques a culture focused on comfort and instant gratification, expressing concern over its implications.
Guillermo Del Toro reflects on a societal tendency to prioritize comfort and immediate satisfaction, cautioning that the values and lifestyles promoted to us may be detrimental. He suggests that this pursuit of convenience can lead to a superficial existence that lacks depth and real fulfillment, evoking fear about the culture's direction and its impact on humanity.
In practice
In a discussion about consumerism, this quote can highlight the dangers of prioritizing comfort over meaningful living.
I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.
As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.
If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.
And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.
Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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