Del Toro on Hitchcock (Very Briefly)

"David Cronenberg was a major influence. He is a nihilist and I am a romantic. I admire Terry Gilliam; we have the same sense of fantasy. Reality and fantasy have equal weighting. Also Luis Bunuel. Alfred Hitchcock because he was fat, Catholic and repressed; he had mysterious fantasies."

Guillermo del Toro, director of the very wonderful and visually stunning Pan's Labyrinth. I missed this when it first came out and saw it recently – it's a remarkable cinematic treat.

Excerpts from del Toro's sketchbooks (above) at The Guardian.