Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show. Guy Maddin More Quotes by Guy Maddin More Quotes From Guy Maddin If I hope to survive, I have to acknowledge the natural selection that goes on when film stocks and cameras are eliminated from the world. And film viewers won't want to watch the same thing over and over again from me. Guy Maddin cameraswantwatches Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb... at gunpoint, if necessary. Guy Maddin wombifstrying Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still. Guy Maddin dancerballetmoving 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 days to go... I can make it!" Guy Maddin wreckshalfthinking 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 devilcareattitude 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 planningmusicalneeds I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out. Guy Maddin childrenyearsthinking I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a flavor to me. I swallowed them whole, like hosts. It was a form of worship. Guy Maddin flavorlazyworship 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 me to wander around in. Guy Maddin sphinxterritoryinteresting The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives. Guy Maddin breaking-thingsbonesnarrative I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long. Guy Maddin spacefeetlong You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of. Guy Maddin bananasmischief
