Director, Guillermo del Toro: Pinocchio is a character thrown into the world with a blank slate to find out who he is, what he’s doing in this world, and why was he born? And it’s a very existential tale.
Can something that was never alive become human? What makes us human? What makes our span in this world precious and valuable and important? And like any other good Mexican, I came up with one answer, death. (laughs)
Director, Mark Gustafson: Well, you don’t have a film about life if you don’t have a film about death. And it’s showing how completely intertwined those things are. There’s some sad things in here, but there’s some incredibly happy and incredibly funny things.
It’s like life. It’s made up of all those elements.