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Film festival Quotes by Guy Maddin

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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 completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant…

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I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a…

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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…

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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 completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the…

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…

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The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of me and…

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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…

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I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that -…

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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 to. You know the same freedom that do-it-yourself punk and post-punk musicians had in the late 70s and ever since. That's about the time I started getting interested in film, and I assumed that film would…

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

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But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not…

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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 watch real life. They don't want to sit and watch a security camera. There's a strong gravity in all of us as viewers - even in myself now and then - to…

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 I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have…