Guillermo Del Toro: I saw real corpses when I was growing up in Mexico

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“I saw real corpses when I was young. People who had been shot, or had accidents. You get a sense of how fraught things are. It’s certainly not a rosy life when you grow up in Mexico. There is that famous, touristic but very real dichotomy for me as a Mexican, where the notion of living and of death as an impending destiny is fused into a single concept.”

Guillermo Del Toro: ‘I saw real corpses when I was growing up in Mexico’

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