I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just… — Guy Maddin Flavor 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… — Guy Maddin Approach 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… — Guy Maddin Application 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… — Guy Maddin Age 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… — Guy Maddin Adapted 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… — Guy Maddin Allergic 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… — Guy Maddin Built 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… — Guy Maddin Art Copy Share Image
In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person. — Guy Maddin People 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… — Guy Maddin Attempting 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… — Guy Maddin Allegory 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… — Guy Maddin Ballet Copy Share Image
If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours.… — Guy Maddin Bed Copy Share Image
I like the way we get to be uninhibited in our dreams, we don't' need to repress our behaviours like we do… — Guy Maddin Behaviour Copy Share Image
Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb... at gunpoint, if necessary. — Guy Maddin Ifs Copy Share Image
Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still. — Guy Maddin Ballet Copy Share Image
I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more… — Guy Maddin Artifacts Copy Share Image
I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them.… — Guy Maddin Clean Copy Share Image
I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a… — Guy Maddin Century Copy Share Image
The spirit of my films... I always want them to be kind of contrarian. Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy… — Guy Maddin Be kind Copy Share Image
Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show. — Guy Maddin Goes on Copy Share Image
Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters… — Guy Maddin Action Copy Share Image
You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of. — Guy Maddin Bananas Copy Share Image
