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 bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse. — 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 don't really want to watch real life. They don't want to sit and watch a security… — 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
