“I like the way we get to be uninhibited in our dreams, we don't' need to repress our behaviours like we do in our daily lives. If we lust after someone in a dream we get to possess him or her, if we dislike someone we get to express it or even strike out at them. Something I wouldn't think of doing, I don't have the courage, and it's not right either.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsDreamStrikesLustDaily LifeDislikeBehaviourOur DreamsDislike Someone Author: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.” NeedsDoneFilmFormTurnsProcessSubjectsSickFilledTiredScriptsFinishedBunchShootingObsessedInterviewsTreatmentGrantsApplicationCompositionEditingUnitsSchedulesAuditionsCastingFestivalsSessionCircuitsConvertingSo SickFilm FestivalsFilled Out Author:Guy Maddin
“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.” NeedsFeelsKindLongBigsFeltSpaceHalfFeetDesignNormalComfortableSizeWideShootingKitchenDancerBalletWombBallet Dancer Author:Guy Maddin
“I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.” NeedsFeelsShouldAmountMusicalPlanningMelodrama Author:Guy Maddin
