I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I've been really lucky with critical reaction, overall, even if my films don't often resemble each other. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'm pretty single-minded, unlike a lot of directors who miraculously seem to be holding six projects in their hand at a given… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up.… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The bond company comes in if you exceed your costs; they're the insurers of the film. In the worst-case scenario, they take… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'll never forget watching 'I'm Not There' with Cate Blanchett, because it was the first time she saw the finished film and… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I hope it's water under the bridge, but Richard Carpenter is a complicated individual, and he's also entitled to his own opinion… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I think when you're trying to get a film together that's had a long gustation process before I came on board and… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Once you are shooting a movie, even if it's your own script, you have to let it go at a certain point.… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I came to this project and 'Far from Heaven' from completely different vantage points. 'Heaven' was of course about the Douglas Sirk… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film. . . . I… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Serious films for grown-ups - 'Michael Clayton,' 'In the Valley of Elah,' 'A Mighty Heart' - these are big Hollywood films, but… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Some directors do recut their films, but I don't if I disagree, and what you suffer is a less passionate marketing campaign,… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
'Mildred' was the first film I shot on Super 16 with Ed Lachman, and we decided to continue doing so for 'Carol.' — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Aspects of guilt or handwringing that one might expect in a film set in the '50s about women who discover their love… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The way I sort of approach my work is that the historical and socioeconomic and cultural worlds that the music is exploring… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Making a film is so scary, and there's such a kind of void that you're working from initially. I mean, you can… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
As an independent filmmaker, to develop the money and the financing and the structure and the whole process, and then promoting them… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' 'Network,' and 'The Parallax View': They were drawn from the genre tradition, but they… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the market. — Todd Haynes Copy Share
Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant… — Todd Haynes Copy Share
I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world. — Todd Haynes Copy Share
It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties. — Todd Haynes Copy Share
Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette is slightly dissonant. — Todd Haynes Copy Share
I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were… — Todd Haynes Copy Share
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.' — Todd Haynes Copy Share
There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting… — Todd Haynes Copy Share
It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with,… — Todd Haynes Copy Share
What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking… — Todd Haynes Copy Share
My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments. — Todd Haynes Copy Share
![“It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up to me and say that 'Far from Heaven' was exactly what it was like back then. [laughs] I was so disinterested in what it was 'really like' in the 1950s when I was putting the…” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/805/todd-haynes-2626_amazed_it-s-like-our-go-to-notion-of-innocent-a_3106523.jpg)
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