Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.
Guy MaddinI was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a flavor to me. I swallowed them whole, like hosts. It was a form of worship.
Guy MaddinI've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long.
Guy MaddinIt feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.
Guy Maddin