Marrakech – Mexican master filmmaker Guillermo del Toro delivered provocative declarations and startling revelations during his tribute conversation at the 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival on Friday. The three-time Oscar winner and acclaimed author stunned audiences with radical statements on mortality, artificial intelligence, and modern civilization’s spiritual decay.
“Why should you want to live longer?” del Toro asked the packed auditorium of festival attendees and film students. “I’m a big fan of death. I think death is really good. I’m certainly looking forward to it, because it’s the day you go, ‘Well, tomorrow I won’t have any problems.’”
The director’s shocking philosophy emerged during a nearly two-hour conversation moderated by screenwriter Kim Morgan, his wife. Del Toro discussed his 50-year journey adapting Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” which recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi.
Del Toro revealed his deeply personal relationship with cinema, confessing he maintains minimal social existence outside filmmaking. “I have very little social life to speak of. This is my life,” he stated.
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