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
If I hope to survive, I have to acknowledge the natural selection that goes on when film stocks and cameras are eliminated… — Guy Maddin 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
