Interview: Guillermo Del Toro

I was just finishing my house and when I mean my house, I mean my house. I'm doing a man cave of epic proportions. My collection of crap was getting so big that my wife said, "Dude, you or us." I said let's move the things out. I bought a house five blocks away from my house, I put a secret book shelf door, I put a haunted mansion room, I am moving all my stuff there and I was planning on having that as my office for the next five years and then I got the call.

Question: Will you move the house?

del Toro: I'm going to lend it to a friend, a like-minded friend to live there for three years while I'm gone. He?s going to have 7,000 DVDs, 15,000 comic books, but the only thing he can't touch is my toys. I have many iterations of Disney's the Nautilus. I collect haunted mansion memorabilia; I collect any iteration of Chernabog the demon from Fantasia. I own two of the original sketches that Kay Nielsen and the other artist pitched to Disney. I am an obsessive collector and I've said in the past, mercifully I do dress like shit and I drive a really old car, so the only vice I have is collecting this stuff.

Ah, another Haunted Mansion nut. I seriously love this man. He has definitely made his way into my top five filmmakers list. I'm super super pumped for The Dark Knight but I'm also really excited for Hellboy 2. My friend Matt attended the premiere and loved it. Can't wait.