--- title: "1 Pre History Quotes By Guy Maddin" description: "1 Pre History quotes by Guy Maddin. Plus more from Guy Maddin and more Pre History sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/guy-maddin-12338_history_older-recordings-just-seemed-to-take-me_2826042.jpg" --- > [Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/older-recordings-just-seemed-to-take-me-somewhere-into-my-own-pre/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/guy-maddin-12338_history_older-recordings-just-seemed-to-take-me_2826042.jpg) ## More by Guy Maddin > [I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/i-was-too-lazy-to-read-and-i-was-even-too-lazy-to-imagine-scenarios/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/i-probably-live-in-the-best-province-for-independent-filmmakers/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/whenever-you-take-a-subject-you-re-obsessed-with-or-that-haunts-you/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/i-ve-been-so-lazy-all-my-life-i-used-to-literally-lie-on-the-couch-up/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of me and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/the-forbidden-room-and-seances-are-related-both-of-them-are-made-up/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/well-i-had-a-wolverine-it-was-supposed-to-be-a-cat-but-jason-patric/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/i-literally-designed-and-built-the-sets-myself-and-i-kind-of-liked-it/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/it-s-funny-how-film-is-the-slowest-art-form-to-adapt-to-freedom-it-s/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/in-many-relationships-that-i-ve-had-people-just-try-to-own-the-other/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/but-in-the-act-of-attempting-to-imitate-i-discovered-that-i-had-a/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/if-you-sit-in-on-a-film-class-with-students-their-big-complaint-is/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/i-ve-usually-never-felt-comfortable-shooting-until-things-were-kind/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours. I like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/if-i-feel-like-crying-i-ll-just-cry-in-a-dream-something-i-really-try/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [I like the way we get to be uninhibited in our dreams, we don't' need to repress our behaviours like we do in our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/i-like-the-way-we-get-to-be-uninhibited-in-our-dreams-we-don-t-need/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) > [Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb... at gunpoint, if necessary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/some-jungian-or-freudian-would-tell-me-i-m-just-trying-to-go-back-to/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pre-history/guy-maddin/#itemlist", "name": "1 Pre History Quotes By Guy Maddin", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. 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