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