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
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
I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a… — 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 was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just… — Guy Maddin 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 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 just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them.… — Guy Maddin 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 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 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
“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 Rage 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
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 Copy Share Image
