Screenplays By Guillermo Del Toro

"[to Strickland] F-U-C-K Y-O-U"

"[To Giles] If we do nothing, neither we are."

"[From Trailer] The Natives in Amazon worshiped it. Like a God. We need to take it apart, learn how it works"

"[After Elisa offers him a towel] Oh, no. No, a man washes his hands before or after tending to his needs. It tells you a lot about man. He does it both times-it points a weakness in character."

"[to Elisa and Zelda; about the Amphibian Man] Let me say this up front: You clean that lab, you get out. The thing we keep in there is an affront. Do you know what an affront is, Zelda? [Zelda: Something offensive?] That's right. And I should know, I dragged that... filthy thing... out of the river muck in South America all the way here. And along the way we didn't get to like each other much. Now. 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 how the Lord looks like, do you?"

"There he is. Dr. Fucking Shitbird."

"I do not fail. I deliver."

"[Last words, to the Amphibian Man before being killed by him] Fuck. You are a god."

"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."

"Get him out? What are you talking about? No! Absolutely not. Because it's breaking the law, that's why. We're probably breaking the law just talking about it."

"[interpreting Elisa] 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. And now, I can either save him... or let him die."

"You know, sometimes I think I was either born too early or too late for my life."

"He's a wild creature. We can't ask him to be anything else."

"[repeated line] This is some of my best work."

"[to Elisa] Whatever this thing is, you need it."

"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."

"Man is as silent as the grave. But if farts were flattery? Honey, he'd be Shakespeare"

"Some of the best minds in the country peein' all over the floor in this facility here"

"Short people are mean. I never met a short man that stays nice all the way through. No sir. Mean little backstabbers, all of 'em. Maybe it's the air down there. Not enough oxygen or somethin'."

"[to Elisa] Oh! Woman, we gon' burn in hell!"

"[to Elisa] Yeah. That's good. Keep that up. Lookin' like you don't know anything."

"Experience a connection beyond words."

"A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times."

"The creature was the most beautiful design I'd ever seen, and I saw him swimming under Julie Adams, and I loved that the creature was in love with her, and I felt an almost existential desire for them to end up together. Of course, it didn't happen."

"When I was in my 30s, I went to Universal and I said, "Can we do the movie from the point of view of the creature?" They didn't go for it. I said, "I think they should end up together." They didn't go for that, either."

"It's not the creature, I don't think that creature is designed in a way that he can be a romantic lead. It's beautiful, but it's not a romantic lead."

"Sally Hawkins — Elisa Esposito"

"Michael Shannon — Colonel Richard Strickland"

"Richard Jenkins — Giles"

"Octavia Spencer — Zelda Fuller"

"Doug Jones — The Anphibian"