If you had to sum up the overarching thesis of writer-director Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein film with one line from Mary Shelley's seminal 1818 novel, the above quote would certainly be a worthy candidate. Considering del Toro has made a career of subverting the idea that monsters are inherently villainous—think previous offerings like Pan's Labyrinth and Best Picture winner The Shape of Water—and has described the so-called Creature from Shelley's gothic horror classic as his "patron saint," it makes sense this would be the thematic thread he would choose to tug on.