Narrator: Guillermo del Toro’s earlier films provided inspiration for the cast and crew that worked on Pinocchio.
Actor, David Bradley: I think Guillermo’s contribution to cinema has been so considerable. The retaining image I have of Pan’s Labyrinth is the white man with the eyes in the palm of his hands. I thought, “What an extraordinary image.”
Actor, Cate Blanchett: Of course there are the fantastical monsters, which he’s very well known for. But there’s also the kind of the demons within us all that we hide from one another and somehow get released through adventure and adversity.
Co-Production Designer, Curt Enderle: We are all huge fans of Guillermo del Toro. It’s one of the things that we did early on, and this was primarily Rob DeSue, our Art Director. He took a look at Devil’s Backbone and Crimson Peak and Shape of Water and pulled out iconic colors and came up with a very small, limited 10-color palette for Pinocchio.
Seeing how his color works and how he reserves special colors for special meaning, those were all things that he had talked about with us early on that we felt that we really wanted to incorporate in our film.
Co-Production Designer, Guy Davis: Obviously it starts with Guillermo. It’s the designs that first he inspires, and then he oversees, and then he nurtures. He’s an artist himself so he brings that out in us and he brings that out in the designs.