Top 20 Quotes From Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

[first lines]
Cricket: [narrator] By the time master Geppetto made Pinocchio, he had already lost a son. Now this was quite a few years before my time, but I learnt the story. And then it became my story.
Cricket: Geppetto lost Carlo during the Great War. They'd been together only ten years. But it was as if Carlo had taken the old man's life with him.

Cricket: Sometimes fathers feel despair, like everyone else. And they say things, things they only think they mean in the moment. But with time, they learn that... well, that they never really meant it at all.

Count: You may have no strings, but I control you.

Pinocchio: [Looking at a crucifix] He's made of wood too. Why do they like him and not me?

Mussolini: These puppets, I do not like. Shoot him! And burn it all down.

Cricket: I want to tell you a story. It's a story you may think you know, but you don't. Not really. You see, I, Sebastian J. Cricket, was there. As a matter of fact, I lived, actually lived, in the heart of the wooden boy.

Podesta: Who controls you, wooden boy?
Geppetto: Of course, I control him!
Pinocchio: Who controls you?

Pinocchio: You know, all fathers love their sons, but... sometimes fathers feel despair, like everyone else. And they say things they only think they mean in the moment. But with time, they learn they never really meant it at all. And they may even call you ugly things like a burden or a coward, but inside... they love you.

Cricket: I'm not a governess, madam. I am an author, a raconteur.

Pinocchio: What's a burden?
Cricket: It's something painful you must carry, even though it hurts you very much.

Wood: While you may have eternal life, your loved ones, they do not.

Geppetto: People are sometimes afraid of things they don't know.

Wood: Master Gepetto, I only wish to bring you joy.
Geppetto: And you did. You did bring me joy. Such terrible, terrible joy.

Cricket: [clears throat] You must try your best, and that's the best anybody can do.

Cricket: What happens, happens, and then we are gone.

Death: The one thing that makes life precious, you see, is how brief it is.

Pinocchio: His nose didn't grow when he called me a burden.

Geppetto: You did bring me joy. Terrible, terrible joy.

Cricket: [after being hugged between Geppetto and Pinocchio] Love hurts.

Cricket: [after being smashed by a book] Oh, the pain... life is such hideous pain.