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“Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.”

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Guy Maddin is a Canadian screenwriter and filmmaker known for his unique narrative style and homage to the history of cinema. His works often blend surrealism, black humor, and mimicry of early film techniques. more

“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.”

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Author:Guy Maddin

“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”

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“I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that - sometimes even 10 - and the shooting took five or six weeks.”

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“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!"”

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“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.”

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

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“I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.”

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“The spirit of my films... I always want them to be kind of contrarian. Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy and careless on the other. I guess that's what you get anyway, if you're not planning very much.”

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“I've never made movies to reach millions of people.”

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“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.”

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