If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
The spirit of my films... I always want them to be kind of contrarian. Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I just respect audiences to understand that that's what goes on in movies. I just try to make movies that respect the… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
If I hope to survive, I have to acknowledge the natural selection that goes on when film stocks and cameras are eliminated… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
You also convert real memories, whatever that means, into film versions of those memories. Because by the time you've finished the project… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I probably live in the best province for independent filmmakers. Manitoba has a sort of thieving-magpie approach, trying to lift productions from other provinces… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
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… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of me and… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Well, I had a wolverine. It was supposed to be a cat, but Jason (Patric) is allergic to cats. I can't remember where I… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that -… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever it wanted… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person. — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
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… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
