Shane Carruth famous quotes

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

#Hard Times #Tv Shows #Philadelphia

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.
-- Shane Carruth

#Dark #Keys #Seduction

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

#Kids #Thinking #Indiana

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.
-- Shane Carruth

#Emotional #Thinking #Intellectual

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

#Texas #People #Urban

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

#Interesting #Answers #Want

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

#Matter #Film #Permission

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

#Heart #Littles #Plot

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

#Book #Writing #Stubborn

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.
-- Shane Carruth

#Believe #Writing #Stories

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.
-- Shane Carruth

#School #Math #Texas

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.
-- Shane Carruth

#Landscape #Narrative #Coming Back

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

#Hate #Ideas #Stories

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.
-- Shane Carruth

#Ideas #Political #Film

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.
-- Shane Carruth

#Want #Way #Execution

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

#Choices #Important #Filmmaking

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.
-- Shane Carruth

#Stories #Saws #Film

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

#Believe #Trying #Lessons

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.
-- Shane Carruth

#Tv Shows #Bored #Tvs

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.
-- Shane Carruth

#Beautiful #Math #Really Beautiful

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

#Freak #Film #Process

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

#College #Stories #Awakening

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 #Helping Others #Thinking

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

#Reality #Want #Reason

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

#Men #President #Conversation

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

#Writing #Math #Together

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

#Passion #Should #Filmmaking

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

#Long #Flaws #Good Things

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

#Theater #Members #Audience