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

Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.

- 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

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

In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.

- 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 …

- 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…

- Guy Maddin

Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characte…

- 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…

- Guy Maddin