Guillermo del Toro on cynicism

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from http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1165265/reviews.php?rid=1558168

"I think cynicism and scepticism is an easy faking of intelligence. Since the 1950s, or the 1940s even, it has become more prestigious to be sceptical. I understand the roots of that movement and that position because in a world that was full of Kennedy-like perfection people raising their fists and saying, "F**k you," were very necessary. In a world like ours - already a cynical, f**ked up world - I think romanticism is a far more risky proposition which is why I see myself as an absolute romantic, but I don't work in the f**king Barbara Cartland mould. I believe in honour, I believe in beauty and I am moved by both. I don't have a single shred of irony in the movies I make. There's no irony in Hellboy, there's no post-modern irony in any of the movies. They're not self-referential in that way. They're true romantic classics."