51 Quotes by Guy Maddin

Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass—it's all showbiz!

Whatever I do next, it'll be a horror film.

It's all Isabella, and she knew exactly what that stomach should sound like for some reason,

In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.

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.

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!"

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.

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

I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish.