Guillermo del Toro

My grandmother would say goodnight to me every day and say, let us pray that I'm here tomorrow.

And that is very intense for a four or five-year-old to hear.

And I would spend, sometimes I would sleep at the foot of her bed and I would be listening in the dark for her breathing.

And if the breathing ceased even for two seconds, I would be jolted and take a look to see if she was okay.

And that stayed with me for many decades.

I don't fear it anymore.

I don't fear that anymore.

I feel losing people, yes.

But me, I'm not afraid of dying, I hope.

You know, really, Terry, all this...

Great questions.

You know when they get resolved?

Right when the lights flutter and you are no longer a director or a general or a pope.

Right when you become just you and the lights are flickering out, that's when you realize what you did or didn't do in your life.

And that's the most momentous thing anyone can experience.

And you can go with great agitation or great peace.

Yes.

Yes, and the Tao.

Because ultimately, that's the plea of the creature, too.

The plea of the creature is, why?