Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak. — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper. — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer.… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I never set out to make a movie that was everything to everybody; if that were the case, we could all just… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be effective communication.… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I stole a ton of film language from Steven Soderbergh and 'The Limey.' It's the definition of elliptical. It was the first… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I never set out to make a movie that was everything to everybody; if that were the case, we could all just take a… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me. — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws. — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Going to grocery stores is almost my favorite thing to do to calm myself down. There's something about just walking aisle after aisle making… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up. — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core part of… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have - not… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
