The Shape of Water (2017) quotes
Director
Guillermo del Toro.
Cast
Sally Hawkins.
Octavia Spencer.
Michael Shannon.
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
If I told you about her, what would I say? That they lived happily ever after? I believe they did. That they were in love? That they remained in love? I’m sure that’s true. But when I think of her – of Elisa – the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love, hundreds of years ago: “Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere.”
– Giles
He’s a wild creature. We can’t ask him to be anything else.
– Giles
Now. I don’t want to bolster or overstate the matter, but uh, this may very well be *the* most sensitive asset ever to be housed in this facility.
– Fleming
When he looks at me, the way he looks at me… He does not know, what I lack… Or – how – I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I – am, as I am. He’s happy – to see me. Every time. Every day. Now, I can either save him… or let him die.
– Giles
So go get some real decency, son. And unfuck this mess.
– Hoyt
Y’know, uh – cornflakes were invented to prevent masturbation. It didn’t work.
– Giles
Fuck. You ARE a god.
– Richard Strickland
[in sign language] If we do nothing, neither are we.
– Elisa
Oh! Woman, we gon’ burn in hell!
– Zelda
You may think, “That thing looks human.” Stands on two legs, right? But – we’re created in the Lord’s image. You don’t think that’s what the Lord looks like, do you?
– Strickland
Get him out? What are you talking about? No! Absolutely not!
– Giles
I’m not competitive, I don’t want an intricate, beautiful thing destroyed!
– Hoffstetler
I do not fail. I deliver.
– Strickland
We can do nothing! I’m sorry! But this, this, this is just – Oh God, it’s not even human. God!
– Giles
What?
– Giles
[in sign language] If we / do nothing / neither are we.
– Elisa
What’d you say to me?
– Strickland
[in sign language] F – U – C – K
– Elisa
What is she saying?
– Strickland
Y – O – U
– Elisa
Uh, I, I didn’t catch it.
– Zelda
IS SHE SAYING?
– Strickland
She, she is sayin’ “Thank you”!
– Zelda
If I told you about her, what would I say? I wonder.
– Giles
Yeah. That’s good. Keep that up. Lookin’ like you don’t know anything.
– Zelda
If I spoke about it – if I did – what would I tell you? I wonder. Would I tell you about the time? It happened a long time ago, it seems. In the last days of a fair prince’s reign. Or would I tell you about the place? A small city near the coast, but far from everything else. Or, I don’t know… Would I tell you about her? The princess without voice. Or perhaps I would just warn you, about the truth of these facts. And the tale of love and loss. And the monster, who tried to destroy it all.
– Giles
A man has the decency not to fuck up. Now that’s one thing. That’s real decent of him. But the other kind of decency – it doesn’t really matter. We sell it, but it’s an export. We sell it because we don’t use it.
– Hoyt
The natives in the Amazon worshipped it. Like a god. We need to take it apart, learn how it works.
– Strickland
Man is as silent as the grave. But if farts were flattery? Honey, he’d be Shakespeare.
– Zelda