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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by… — Guy Maddin Books Copy Share Image
You also convert real memories, whatever that means, into film versions of those memories. Because by the time you've finished the project… — Guy Maddin Distaste 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 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
If I hope to survive, I have to acknowledge the natural selection that goes on when film stocks and cameras are eliminated… — Guy Maddin Acknowledge 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
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
When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage… — Guy Maddin Band Copy Share Image
