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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Shane Carruth Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Shane Carruth Read Quote
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 Read Quote
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that has to do with content and also because the venues seem to be actively trying to repel people. Shane Carruth Read Quote
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 Read Quote
