How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Pan's Labyrinth.
Quote #7
VIDAL [to Ferreiro]: Listen to me: if you have to choose, save the baby. That boy will bear my name and my father's name too.
Vidal isn't concerned about his child as a human being: what he cares about is his family legacy. If his baby was a girl she wouldn't be able to carry on his name and he would surely have a preference for saving his wife and having another chance at a son.
Quote #8
[When Ofelia enters the throne room of the Underground Realm, we see the floor is patterned with vesica piscis, or the shape created by the intersection of two circles. The colors of the Underground realm are very red and golden.]
Just in case you think we're reading a bit much into the feminine imagery here, del Toro himself says he, "deliberately designed the idea of the fantasy world to be extremely uterine. We used a fallopian palette of colors: we used crimsons and golds, and everything in the fantasy world is very rounded while everything in the real world is cold and straight." (Source)
Straight from the director himself.