Love Quote by Guillermo del Toro

Del Toro isn’t confessing a quirky taste; he’s staking out an artistic citizenship. “I love monsters” lands as a rebuke to the cultural reflex that treats the monstrous as disposable spectacle: something to kill, cure, or mock so the “normal” can feel intact. His follow-up is the real pivot. “I identify with monsters” flips the power dynamic. The monster stops being an external threat and becomes a mirror for anyone who’s been mislabeled, shamed, or pushed to the margins.

The line works because it’s both personal and programmatic. Del Toro’s films repeatedly make the “human” world look colder than the creature world: fascists, bureaucrats, and polite sadists are the true predators, while ghosts, amphibian men, and stitched-together bodies carry tenderness, desire, and grief. Identification here isn’t cosplay; it’s an ethic. To align yourself with monsters is to side with the outcast, to refuse the clean moral geometry where beauty equals goodness and difference equals danger.

There’s also a craft-level subtext: monsters are cinema’s most honest metaphors. They literalize what society tries to keep abstract - fear, illness, war, childhood trauma, queerness, otherness - and give it a body you can look at. Del Toro’s intent is to restore dignity to the grotesque, to make the audience feel the discomfort of their own allegiances. If you find yourself rooting for the creature, he’s nudging you to ask who taught you what a monster is in the first place.