Guillermo del Toro was awarded a BFI Fellowship, the British Film Institute’s highest honor, earlier this week in London. And to celebrate the award, the Mexican filmmaker has taken part in a series of talks and presentations across the British capital. This evening, he sat for an onstage career Q&A session with film historian and BFI executive Jason Wood.

The talk was impassioned and wide-ranging, with Wood, a longtime del Toro interlocutor, quizzing the filmmaker on everything from his childhood in Guadalajara, Mexico, to his passion for design and scrapbooking.…