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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Guy Maddin Copy Share
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… — Guy Maddin Copy Share
Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb... at gunpoint, if necessary. — Guy Maddin Copy Share
