I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Every time you try to make another movie, you never know what will come of it. I can't say it ever gets… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
People call you "director," but it really should be "economic manager." Because everything is "Well, we can do another take here, but… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize… — Todd Solondz Copy Share
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy,… — Todd Solondz Copy Share
For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way.… — Todd Solondz Copy Share
I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again. — Todd Solondz Copy Share
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it… — Todd Solondz Copy Share
I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like… — Todd Solondz Copy Share
I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more… — Todd Solondz Copy Share
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original. — Todd Solondz Copy Share
What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity itself has… — Todd Solondz Copy Share
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal… — Todd Solondz Copy Share
So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth.… — Todd Solondz Copy Share
It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you… — Todd Solondz Copy Share
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. — Todd Solondz Copy Share
