TSG Entertainment / Double Dare You Productions
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.
"The Shape of Water" is a 2017 American romantic dark fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in Baltimore in 1962, the story follows a mute custodian at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Published on Dec 14, 2017
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" I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
" The average American family hasn't time for television.
" Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
" The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
" The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
" The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
" Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
" Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
" No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
" Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
" The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
" All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
" Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
" The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
" Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
" You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
" It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
" My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
" Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
" Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
While attending a Production Meeting
" This is no place to ask questions!!
" Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
" When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
" Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
" I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
" Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
" What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
" Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
" I'll moider da bum!
" Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
" I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
" I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
" The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
" I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
" The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
" Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
" I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
" Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
" From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
" The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
" I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
" If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
To a young Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
" Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
" It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
" The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
" Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
" I'll give you a definite maybe.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
" We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
