The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives. Guy Maddin More Quotes by Guy Maddin More Quotes From Guy Maddin Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the film festival circuit, interviews even. And by the time you've finished the process you're so sick and tired by something that was once very precious to you that you're done with it. Guy Maddin filled-out tired editing 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 cameras want watches Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb... at gunpoint, if necessary. Guy Maddin womb ifs trying Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still. Guy Maddin dancer ballet moving 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 wrecks half thinking 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 devil care attitude 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 planning musical needs 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 children years thinking 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 flavor lazy worship 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 sphinx territory interesting 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 space feet long You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of. Guy Maddin bananas mischief
