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QUOTED: Guy Maddin’s Facebook rant about comped tickets

By Toronto Life

| September 8, 2011

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When you execute a painting or sculpture do I ask if I can have it? When you mount an opera, write a book or make a meal in a restaurant do I come a-weasling for freebs? If $11 a head is too much for you then go panhandle in front of the Bell Lightbox, or better yet, take your fault-finding face and stay home. That’s where I’ll be.

— Guy Maddin on being asked for free tickets to the TIFF screening of his film Keyhole [National Post]

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