The Shape Of Water (2017)

Oh, God! I’m so proud of you.

That’s very good advice.

Guillermo del Toro speaking about his inspiration for the bathroom scene at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

i like that he felt  like he had to specify that he didn’t fuck a monster

He didn’t fuck a monster when he was a kid.  He says nothing about what he got up to once he was grown.

The Shape of Water (2017) dir. Guillermo Del Toro

Cinematography by: Dan Laustsen
The Shape of Water (2017)*
Directed by Guillermo del Toro

“The way I’m shooting movies, it’s 1:1. What you’re shooting on the set is exactly how it’s going to look in the movie. When we did the color-correction, the DI, for this movie, Guillermo said, “I don’t want to make a DI, because I think I like exactly how it looks.” We spent some time on the set to do the right colors, and I think that’s very, very important for me, to shoot the movie exactly as it should look. So when we’re doing the DI, I’m just making a corner a little bit darker or a window a little bit brighter, but we’re not changing the color. So when you see framegrabs from the sets the day we shot it and you see the final movie, it’s exactly the same; we’re not changing colors at all.” — Dan Laustsen on the gap between what’s captured in-camera and the final image

*Academy Award nominee for Best Cinematography in 2018

I love this movie a lot

the shape of water (2017) characters » dr. robert hoffstetler / dimitri mosenkov
I came to this country to learn what I could as a patriot, yes… but also as a scientist. There is still so much we can learn.

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.

The Shape of Water (2017), dir. Guillermo del Toro