The Oscars (2018 TV Special)

Guillermo del Toro: Self - Winner & Nominee

Quotes 

• Guillermo del Toro : Thank you. I am an immigrant like Alfonso and Alejandro, my compadres. Like Gael. Like Salma. And like many, many of you. And in the last twenty-five years, I've been living in a country all of our own: part of it is here, part of it is in Europe, part of it is everywhere. Because I think that the greatest thing our art does and our industry does is to erase the lines in the sand. We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper. The place I like to live the most is at Fox Searchlight, because in 2014 they came to listen to a mad pitch with some drawings and the story and a maquette. And they believed that a fairy tale about an amphibian god and mute woman done in the style of Douglas Sirk, and a musical, and a thriller was a sure bet. I wanna thank the people that have come with me all the way: Kimmy, Robert, Gary, Wayne and George, and my kids. And I wanna say like Jimmy Cagney said once: My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My brothers and sisters thank you. And I thank you very much. Thank you.

• Guillermo del Toro : Thank you. Thank you very much. Growing up in Mexico, as a kid I was a big admirer of foreign film. Foreign film like "E.T." or William Wyler or Douglas Sirk or Frank Capra. And a few weeks ago Steven Spielberg said, if you find yourself there, find yourself in the podium, remember that you are part of our legacy, that you're a part of a world of filmmakers and be proud of it. I'm very, very proud. I want to dedicate this to every young filmmaker, the youth that is showing us how things are done. Really they are, in every country in the world. And I was a kid enamored with movies, and growing up in Mexico I thought this could never happen. It happens. And I want to tell you, everyone that is dreaming of a parable, of using genre or fantasy to tell the stories about the things that are real in the world today, you can do it. This is a door; kick it open and come in. Thank you very much.

  J. Miles Dale : This movie...

  [Music continues playing. At some point the stage microphone is turned off, then disappears into the stage] 

  Jimmy Kimmel : What did you want to say? I'll tell them.

  [Kimmel leans in to hear; his body mic picks up Dale speaking] 

  J. Miles Dale : I just wanted to say that it's Guillermo, it's his heart. And it's everything. We thank him for letting us be a part of that.