What is Reddit's opinion of Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions?

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He literally wrote a book on his inspiration for his characters and never mentioned this.

> The idea in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ was it was going to represent the church, [so] I thought it would be powerful to use the hands with stigmata and then you put eyes on it. But although I had the idea and knew how it was going to operate, when we saw it on the set with the makeup on actor Doug Jones, everybody froze and we went, ‘Oh my God, this is amazing.’

Those dumb fucking people finding symbolism where there is none by analyzing the art are annoying enough. Now we have artists retroactively creating symbolism to circle jerk with their npc friends.

I wonder what his woke symbolism for the harbinger of doom being female is.

Sometimes called a director's notebook:

Google Image Search

Interesting--searching "director's notebook" or "director's notebooks" came up nearly empty-- the magic search string is "directors notebook" (no apostrophe.)

Edit: I realize a lot of these are for Twilight. If you dig deeper down the page there are a few others. Blue -ray DVD's sometimes have a section about the director's notebook.

Edit #2: More here

I'll add more as I find it. Good question.

Coppola's notebook for the Godfather-- YT link

A Page from Coppola's notebook (previously on Reddit)

Good Interview where Coppola gives some insight into his director's notebook

Guillermo del Toro's (Hellboy director) gives insight in this book -- Amazon link with 11 preview images-- some from his director's notebook

Excerpts from director's notebook --Pan's Labyrinth

Plus, Jester has surely added her own contributions ;-)

edit - It's also a great opportunity for another tie-in publication, like Guillermo del Toro's notebooks: https://www.amazon.com/Guillermo-del-Toro-Cabinet-Curiosities/dp/0062082841/

Anne Frank's is the most famous one. I just reread it for the first time in over 30 years.

Others to look into: Guillermo del Toro, Anais Nin, Thoreau, Emerson, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Palin, Alec Guiness, Thich Nhat Hanh, Edith Holden, Samuel Pepys. I could go on...

I'll also recommend this book. It gives you a peek inside some of the most famous diaries and journals.