'Frankenstein' director Guillermo del Toro reveals how he related to monster as a child

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00:00The tale of Frankenstein is so eternal. Why do you think it keeps getting rid of that?

00:05I think there are maybe ten stories that form the vocabulary of myth collectively

00:10after the classical myth, and that's one of them.

00:16Pinocchio is another, Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, you know, obviously the literature of the world

00:22has given us many of these, and every time you sing it with truth and power in your voice

00:28and conviction, they are remembered.

00:31And what did you, how old were you when you read the book?

00:33Eleven.

00:34Eleven, wow. And what did you, did you immediately love it?

00:36I immediately knew the creature was me.

00:39Really? Why?

00:41Because I didn't fit in what people thought I should be as a boy growing up in the city.

00:46So how did you, I mean, it's kind of, when did you feel like, oh, I'm fitting in now?

00:50I don't fit.

00:52You still don't fit?

00:53No. I can't at all.

00:56But you fit in now that you're, look at you at the Gotham Awards and winning Oscars and...

01:00It's not about that.

01:02It's about the inner signals aligning with the mainstream or not.

01:06Right.

01:07With what people think is proper or not.

01:09What do people think it should be or what you think it should be.

01:26It's about the story.

01:27But you're just fine.

01:31It's about the stressok.

01:33You're just fine.

01:35It's about the geography.

01:37You're just fine.

01:39You're just fine.

01:43I can't be fine.

01:46It's just fine.

01:47It's about the blog enależy.

01:50Bye-bye.