“Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.” KnowsFeelingsGoalSmartBeing Smart Author:Guy Maddin
“Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.” KnowsArtSeemsFilmNightHouseRight NowTraditionalNarrativeGet BetterFilmmakerGloriousThrowingComing OutPrimitiveGreat WorkCemeteryClumsyDisruptiveGood FilmsSplendourAromaArabianZenithArabian Nights Author:Guy Maddin
“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 it wanted to. You know the same freedom that do-it-yourself punk and post-punk musicians had in the late 70s and ever since. That's about the time I started getting interested in film, and I assumed that film would be moving along with the other pop culture forms. Its finally done it but it's taken decades for it to catch up just to basement band level.” KnowsArtDoneWould BeWantedFilmMovingFormCultureLevelsTakenBandLateMusicianPopsDecadesPostsPunkPop CultureBasementsDo It Yourself Author:Guy Maddin
“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.” KnowsHomeFatherChildhoodProjectsCuresRealisingChildhood HomeDead Father Author:Guy Maddin
