58 Todd Haynes Quotes for You to Enjoy

Todd Haynes

American Director

Born: Jan 2, 1961

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Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while. Todd Haynes

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There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo. Todd Haynes

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Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can't be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively. Todd Haynes

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Each production is its own experience. Todd Haynes

Experience Own Production Each

Sirkian films really aren't - at least the way I see them, they're not about identification. They don't have voiceover. A lot of the love stories that are rooted, classic love stories rooted in point of view, use voiceover as a mechanism for locating you there. Todd Haynes

'Carol' is so distorted by point-of-view. Todd Haynes

Carol Distorted

At HBO, you've just basically got a studio full of artistically driven smart guys and women who really care about the quality first and foremost. Todd Haynes

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I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint. Todd Haynes

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I started 'Carol' as I almost always do, by looking at films from the time, and they were less - they actually felt less relevant to me in terms of their bigness, although we do have some big '50s-type moments in 'Carol.' Todd Haynes

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I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable about what's going on. And literature has played a big part in my life. Todd Haynes

It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties. Todd Haynes

Funny Feeling Feel Particular Like Privileged Any Fifties

I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them. Todd Haynes

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In high school - that's when I first fell in love with his music and his voice. 'Blonde on Blonde' above everything. I vaguely remember 'Desire' coming out. I definitely remember 'Street Legal' and 'Slow Train Coming.' The first time I saw Dylan was on that tour: '79 in L.A. Todd Haynes

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My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle. Todd Haynes

Problem Giggle Would Something Liked Safe

I'll never forget watching 'I'm Not There' with Cate Blanchett, because it was the first time she saw the finished film and saw her performance in it. I was sitting next to her experiencing it vicariously through her fresh eyes and hoping she liked it. Todd Haynes

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The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people. Todd Haynes

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I value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like. Todd Haynes

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