I started making movies in my late 20s, that time in an artist's career that often sees artists just imitating things that he or she loves. I just wanted to be great like L'Age d'Or vintage Buñuel. I wanted to be Busby Berkeley, for crying out loud! I wanted to have chorus girls stomping their heels in my casting office. I wanted to be Erich Von Stroheim monogramming underwear for extras. So I started off my career doing that, and that was fun, but I realised I wasn't very good at it.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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 …
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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