Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - Shane Carruth
" All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. "
I Am
Audience
Theater
" 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. "
You
Film
Conversation
" As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution. "
Work
Architecture
I Can
" Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak. "
Film
I Am
Am
" Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper. "
Day
Choices
Important
" From a completely financial standpoint, digital is starting to crack as far as an independent filmmaker's access to getting your story out there - Amazon, iTunes, all of those. It makes the prospect of doing it yourself - not easy by any means - but possible, maybe for the first time. "
Story
Financial
Time
" Going to grocery stores is almost my favorite thing to do to calm myself down. There's something about just walking aisle after aisle making mundane choices. 'Do I want that? No, I want the one that has the low sodium.' And that feels like a good exercise to be doing when there isn't anything to be doing. It's like a kick-starter in some way. "
Good
Choices
Calm
" I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything. "
Good
Time
Life
" I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again. "
Story
Music
Believe
" I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be. "
Someone
Filmmaking
Passion
" I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing 'Upstream Color' where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn't think of anything else. I was absolutely secure in this story in the way I'm rarely secure about anything else in my life. "
Think
Life
Moment
" I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. "
Speak
Truth
Trying
" I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up. "
Stubborn
Books
Just Because
" I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas. "
Texas
People
Urban
" I don't typically have a social life, I don't have a family, and I will stay up all night, every night, for days on end, to solve something that I think is solvable. And it's very frustrating sometimes, because I know that I'm like that, and it's not always a positive result. "
Life
Family
Think
" I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist. "
Want
Unknown
Thought
" I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information. "
Together
Information
Writing
" I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things. "
Thinking
Experience
Feel
" I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is. "
Key
Time
Romantic
" 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. "
Got
School
Software
" I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed. "
Things
Kid
Think
" I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud. "
Exploration
Hate
Say
" I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times. "
Down
Watch
Time
" I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic. "
Romantic
People
Love
" I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem. "
Problem
Work
You
" I'm constantly surprised by... an orange will roll off a table, and I'll catch it before I knew it was falling. Something happens there. We could write it off and say, 'Subconsciously I knew that was happening,' but there's so many things every day - I'm amazed by how little we know. "
Orange
Know
Falling
" I'm interested in making something that moves quickly, that hopefully is compelling minute-by-minute but really packed densely with exploration. I'm very interested in how re-visitable we can make films. If we can get them closer to a music album, then it's not such an arduous process to revisit, and exploration can be a bit more cryptic. "
Exploration
Process
Music
" I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our experience. That's why I think it was invented and why mythology was invented; it's a tool, not an end to itself. "
Think
Experience
End
" I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me. "
Men
Big
Conversation
" I never set out to make a movie that was everything to everybody; if that were the case, we could all just take a picture of a tree and agree that the tree is beautiful and move on with our lives. I wouldn't even need to show up. "
Need
Tree
Move On
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark