Shane Carruth Quotes

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• If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.

  Shane Carruth

  Trying, Pieces, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• 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

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• My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core part of the plot. But if I ever take another look at it then I can see that there was some more stuff going on in there that I didn't realize.

  Shane Carruth

  Plot, Looks, Stories

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

  "Five Questions For Upstream Color Director Shane Carruth". Interview with Ethan Alter, www.brilliantbutcancelled.com. April 1, 2013.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything else is just kind of waiting and waiting and waiting.

  Shane Carruth

  Editing, Waiting, Watches

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

  Shane Carruth

  Stories, Saws, Film

  "DVD RE-RUN INTERVIEW: Shane Carruth on 'Primer'; The Lessons of a First-Timer". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. April 18, 2005.

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• 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

  "Shane Carruth, Indiedom's purist, on new movies and old regrets". Interview with Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.

  Shane Carruth

  Photography, Looks, Snapshots

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

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• 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, Watches

  "How Shane Carruth Constructs". Interview with Paul Dallas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2013.

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• 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

  Execution, Sound, Want

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• When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.

  Shane Carruth

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

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• 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

  "How Shane Carruth Constructs". Interview with Paul Dallas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2013.

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• 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

  "Shane Carruth Explains Why ‘Upstream Color’ Isn’t So Difficult to Understand and Talks About His Next Project". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. April 3, 2013.

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• 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

  "Steven Soderbergh & Shane Carruth Talk 'Upstream Color,' Its Lack Of Cats & Suspicious Marketing In China". Interview with Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

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

  Shane Carruth

  Men, President, Macgyver

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

  Shane Carruth

  Important, Lines, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

  "DVD Re-run Interview: Shane Carruth on “Primer”; The Lessons of a First-Timer". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. April 18, 2005.

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