Guillermo del Toro

I went with my mother to a cinema downtown that was super cheap and showed very old movies.

It was really gothic atmosphere with rain and the moors and Olivier.

It's basically a ghost story in many ways, Wuthering Heights.

And I fell asleep full of fear.

I dreamt my dream and woke up in the theater with the movie still playing.

So exactly, my first movie was part of a lucid dream.

Exactly.

You're looking at it.

I mean, that's when I fell in love with Gothic romance, and I couldn't have been more than four.

Why do I know it?

Because I remember the house we were living in where I was born, and my father won the lottery, the national lottery, in 1969, which would make me five years old when we moved from that house to a giant house in the outskirts of the city.

$6 million in 1969, which is the entire budget of Planet of the Apes.

Completely.

I mean, completely.

We moved into a house and lived a very sort of strange life.

I mean, we had all sorts of pets.

We had eagles, a pet lion, 30 dogs, deer.

Yeah, we had it like a zoo.

I could go like Danny in The Shining.

I could go on my tricycle for hours in the long corridors.