Guillermo del Toro, filmmaker

February 06, 2007 Not only did his Picturehouse release "Pan's Labyrinth" score six Oscar nominations late last month in an array of categories, but the movie also is on track to become the highest-grossing Spanish-language feature ever in the U.S. Taking a short break from the excitement, del Toro recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter's Gina McIntyre about what makes fairy tales so universally appealing and how he owes much of his success to an impressive collection of action figures and more than one Super8 camera. What tends to happens with fantasy in Hollywood is they tend to explain it until it's not magical anymore. The main problem is (whether) to make a story an exercise in logic or to make a story an exercise in emotion.

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