Guillermo Del Toro

0:00We always thought alien life would come from the stars, but it came from deep beneath the Pacific. In order to fight monsters, we created monsters of our own. It was born. So I got in my car last night, and it just felt puny after seeing this movie. I sat down to drive. This is nothing. This is a ridiculous vehicle. It's not even close to each other. I should be driving a Yeager. One day, hopefully, we all will. I'll do bumper stickers that say, my other car is a Yeager.

0:45It's a good marketing thing. I guess we'll talk about towing the line, because this is a genre film, but you also want to make it your own. So how do you tour the line between the two? Well, I think that you don't even tow the line. You throw yourself wholeheartedly at the line. I mean, I've been making movies that are reformulations of genre movies all my life. Devil's Bag One is a very special kind of ghost story. Pan-Zlaminate is a very peculiar brand of fairy tale. And with Pacific Rim, I wanted to just make a movie about the things I loved as a kid. You know, things... It's almost like getting the chance of to finally bake a cake, the way you think cakes should be baked,

1:32and putting all the memories of what I love about monsters, about what I loved about robots in one single movie. Make it just a sugar rush almost. You talk about pans and Devil's Bag One, and I've read that you like the way the actors move very rhythmically, and you had a way that you wanted to move. But then Charlie, we were talking about Charlie A before, was in this film, changed everything for you as a director. Like, you just let him go because he needs to. He needs to. Charlie Day and Idris Elba. Both are very, very free actors. Like Idris changes from take to take, and changes the speech, changes the lines. And Charlie basically, we met in the middle. He was really wild in the beginning, and then by the middle of the movie, he was hitting his marks, he was very precise.

2:17He would repeat very well his takes. He was domesticated a little bit. That's amazing. Speaking of Charlie, he's got one great line. I don't want to ruin anything but he talks about how we've created an environment for the guy to arrive. And I think that's a really cool undertone that you've put in the movie that we've kind of brought these monsters among us. Yeah. Well, the idea in the idea in the movie is to any layer that is there to resemble wholeheartedly a summer movie, but each layer is actually goes counterpoint to what we normally see in a movie like this. We is not about one country or one ideology or one form of combat saving the world. It's about the world saving the world. It's about all of us coming together. It's really, it's full of those kind of layers that make the movie quite special.

3:06The love story is not a love story. It's just two people going, let's trust each other. There's a lot of layers in this movie that are interesting to watch. I've always found this interesting about these kind of movies. All the countries come together when there's an attack from elsewhere. But I hear there's a sequel already being written because we all know how successful this is going to be. So do countries go back to war against each other after they've banded together? Yes. They do. They think they would. Yeah, they would. Oh, 100%. Yeah, it's been proven. I mean, World War II. You know, the Staunchest allies we have in the Eastern Europe was the Soviets, you know. And then America breaks with the Soviets and makes an alliance with Franco in Spain, who's a fascist. I mean, it's really Nazi scientists move to America to work in NASA.

3:56Is the world is a complicated in that sense? Yeah, I'll let you go. So we do something called Five Questions. Five Quick Questions. One word answers. Not one word. One word. Film or digital? Film. Letting or McCartney. McCartney. If you can record one Hitchcock movie, what would it be? That's a very unfair one. I know it is. I'm sorry. It's not one word anyway, North by North with. Okay, cool. I'll trigger it. Nice. Robots or monsters? Oh, man. You're evil. No, I'm not answering. All right. In one word, Pacific Room. Awesome. Today we are canceling the apocalypse.