While accepting the directing honor at Variety\u2019s 10 Directors to Watch and Creative Impact Awards brunch during the Palm Springs International Film Festival,
Guillermo del Toro<\/a> told the up-and-coming filmmakers to never listen when \u201cpeople tell you art is not important,\u201d because that is \u201calways a prelude to fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cBe kind, be involved, believe in your art,\u201d he said. \u201cAt a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn\u2019t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it\u2019s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with del Toro, who received the Directing…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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