Quotes by Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin

But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not was another matter. I found that I was my best or that I pleased myself most or came closest to my goals when I was tapped into something autobiographical.

Goal

Matter

Voice

Hollywood isn’t exactly dragging me, or even aware of me.

Hollywood

I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There’s so many things I’ve cured myself of without realising and now when I’m embark on a project I know I’m going to cure myself of it.

Childhood

Father

Home

I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It’s the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it’s actually uninhibited. And it’s a big difference – people look down on exaggerations, but I think they should look up to the un-inhibitions.

Dream

People

Thinking

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that’s a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

Musical

Needs

Planning

I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish.

Black And White

Looks

Static

I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I’m not a really good author. I feel like my job as a filmmaker is to eff the ineffable, to take feelings that only poets could describe with words and try to project them on the screen for viewers to feel. I don’t think I’ve succeeded once but in the act of trying I’ve come up with all these other results which sometimes intrigue me.

Inspire

Jobs

Thinking

I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them. I was drunk on greed when I encountered this motherlode of utterly fascinating narratives that time’s great river washed up on its banks for me to just scavenge, and not even rub clean, just repurpose and take credit for. It was kind of one of those weird dreams that where you keep finding free money.

Dream

Drunk

Rivers

I just respect audiences to understand that that’s what goes on in movies. I just try to make movies that respect the intelligence of the audience. Respect that they understand that the narrator is always unreliable and respect that they understand that the medium can do whatever it wants.

Goes On

Narrators

Trying

I like going out to popcorn-munchers.

Going Out

Popcorn

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Quotes by Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin

But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not was another matter. I found that I was my best or that I pleased myself most or came closest to my goals when I was tapped into something autobiographical.

Hollywood isn’t exactly dragging me, or even aware of me.

I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There’s so many things I’ve cured myself of without realising and now when I’m embark on a project I know I’m going to cure myself of it.

I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It’s the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it’s actually uninhibited. And it’s a big difference – people look down on exaggerations, but I think they should look up to the un-inhibitions.

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that’s a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish.

I just respect audiences to understand that that’s what goes on in movies. I just try to make movies that respect the intelligence of the audience. Respect that they understand that the narrator is always unreliable and respect that they understand that the medium can do whatever it wants.

I like going out to popcorn-munchers.

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