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 CarruthI 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 CarruthI 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 CarruthI 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 CarruthI am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.
Shane CarruthCinematography 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