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" The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works. "
Shane Carruth
I Can
College
Comedy
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" Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that. "
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You
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Software
" 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. "
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Music
Believe
" 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. "
Shane Carruth
Good
Time
Life
" I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws. "
Shane Carruth
Time
Long Time
Long
" 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. "
Shane Carruth
Together
Information
Writing
" 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. "
Shane Carruth
Think
Life
Moment
" It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers. "
Shane Carruth
Questions
Interesting
Easy
" 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. "
Shane Carruth
Exploration
Hate
Say
" I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. "
Shane Carruth
Speak
Truth
Trying
" My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. "
Shane Carruth
Saw
Story
Walk
" 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. "
Shane Carruth
Story
Financial
Time
" I stole a ton of film language from Steven Soderbergh and 'The Limey.' It's the definition of elliptical. It was the first movie I remember that introduced me to storytelling that isn't just one scene after another, and that things can be mixed up in the way that real experiences can. "
Shane Carruth
Storytelling
Remember
Me
" 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. "
Shane Carruth
Things
Kid
Think
" Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak. "
Shane Carruth
Film
I Am
Am
" There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down. "
Shane Carruth
Looking
Attention
You
" 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. "
Shane Carruth
Want
Unknown
Thought
" I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing. "
Shane Carruth
Writing
People
Love
" I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me. "
Shane Carruth
Men
Big
Conversation
" I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody. "
Shane Carruth
Ask
Matter
Going
" 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. "
Shane Carruth
Someone
Filmmaking
Passion
" I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up. "
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Stubborn
Books
Just Because
" 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. "
Shane Carruth
Down
Watch
Time
" Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film. "
Shane Carruth
Someone
Tell
Heart
" I've heard stories about movies that are really maybe difficult and really dramatic and good, but they are being sold as romantic comedies. All it's going to do is just... that's hurting the work, because that just makes it impossible for anyone to see it correctly. "
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Romantic
Impossible
Good
" 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. "
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Romantic
People
Love
" 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. "
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Life
Family
Think
" 'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the future. I think that's more than enough to hope for. "
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Future
Think
Live
" 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. "
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You
Film
Conversation