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Guillermo Del Toro

Just a great interview with Guillermo Del Toro @ Fresh Air. Amazingly articulate man. I saw the Devil's Backbone years ago and listened to the full DVD commentary by Del Toro after. He has matured a great deal; on the DVD he sounds full of himself and somewhat formularized: “this means that…” — the sort of thinking you hear in humanities/academic attempts to “explain” art by parsing symbols. But Del Toro's current self is most impressive. Terry Gross, as interviewer, was at her best.