I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and somehow I found myself at the turn of the century. I used lost film as an excuse to express myself.
I just respect audiences to understand that that's what goes on in movies. I just try to make movies that respect the intelligence of the audience. R… - Guy Maddin
I just respect audiences to understand that that's what goes on in movies. I just try to make movies that respect the intelligence of the audience. R…
- Guy Maddin
I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and… - Guy Maddin
I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and…
Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for. - Guy Maddin
Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.
In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person. - Guy Maddin
In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.
If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize that they don't really want to wa… - Guy Maddin
If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize that they don't really want to wa…
Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be … - Guy Maddin
Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be …
But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not was another matter. I found that I was m… - Guy Maddin
But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not was another matter. I found that I was m…
I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a r… - Guy Maddin
I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a r…
Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characte… - Guy Maddin
Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characte…
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