Guillermo del Toro

Sometimes, like a magic realism novel, I would go for weeks without seeing a single adult.

I would find food in the fridge.

I would find clean clothes on my drawers.

And I didn't interact with many adults.

I would just, you know, exist in a mysterious life in an enchanted castle.

It was.

And one of the things he did is he bought a library and filled it with books that he never read.

But I read them all.

And that's where I read the Encyclopedia of Anatomy and Health.

And that's where I read all my classics, you know, Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde.

Well, what happened is my dad controlled everything.

None of us have access to that money.

My father raised those, he would say, you want, I would say, I want to buy film for my camera.

And he would say, okay, go to the car dealership and clean all the cars all week.

And Saturday I'll give you a third of it.

You come back another three weeks, I'll buy you a reel of Super 8.

He didn't want to raise us as if we had everything.

So, you know, none of us had access to that money.

He had the money to pay for the ransom, but none of us could access it.

I had some money left from Mimic when he was kidnapped.