I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning. — Guy Maddin Amount Copy Share Image
If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of… — Guy Maddin Cinema Copy Share Image
The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives. — Guy Maddin Bones Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin 20th century Copy Share Image
Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten… — Guy Maddin Archives Copy Share Image
“27 July Rage-thought to live by: in The General , Buster gets so annoyed at his girlfriend's stupidity for stoking the engine… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the… — Guy Maddin Autumn Copy Share Image
I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. I'm sure it's going to catch up with me. — Guy Maddin Attitude Copy Share Image
Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,… — Guy Maddin Arabian Copy Share Image
“Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass—it's all showbiz!” — Guy Maddin Happiness Copy Share Image
I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited.… — Guy Maddin Dream Copy Share Image
Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for. — Guy Maddin Being smart Copy Share Image
It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker. — Guy Maddin Feel good Copy Share Image
I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the… — Guy Maddin Bigs Copy Share Image
I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting… — Guy Maddin Ballet Copy Share Image
I just respect audiences to understand that that's what goes on in movies. I just try to make movies that respect the… — Guy Maddin Audience Copy Share Image
I'm a nervous wreck. If it's a 20-day shoot, at lunchtime on the first day, I'm thinking "Only 19 and a half… — Guy Maddin Firsts Copy Share Image
I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've… — Guy Maddin Childhood Copy Share Image
No one ever gets to see Foley artists at work, and they're so strange. They see the world differently: things as things… — Guy Maddin Art Copy Share Image
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… — Guy Maddin History Copy Share Image
I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously… — Guy Maddin Chicago Copy Share Image
I started making movies in my late 20s, that time in an artist's career that often sees artists just imitating things that… — Guy Maddin Age Copy Share Image
I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times… — Guy Maddin Childhood Copy Share Image
Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about… — Guy Maddin Feelings Copy Share Image
