My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. Shane Carruth Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s a risk, but I’m sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, ‘If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.’ No, it won’t, and you end up with little more than books on film. Shane Carruth Read Quote
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. Shane Carruth Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Shane Carruth Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Shane Carruth Read Quote
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. Shane Carruth Read Quote