61 Quotes by Shane Carruth

Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be effective communication. Communication involves an audience of many that have a conversation, put it through the ringer, filter it and then a sense of it coalesces.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.