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 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
At the time I made 'Safe,' I was really intrigued by the whole culture around AIDS, which was turning to people like… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. From a filmmaker's standpoint,… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
'Carol' takes place at a time the country was crawling out of the shadows of the war years, feeling the new vulnerabilities… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It's hard to transport myself forward in time, and the scarcity of opportunity back then kind of fueled my ambition. But back… — 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 think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
In high school - that's when I first fell in love with his music and his voice. 'Blonde on Blonde' above everything.… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
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… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The first time I saw Douglas Sirk was in college. I didn't encounter him on the late, late, late show like a… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I started 'Carol' as I almost always do, by looking at films from the time, and they were less - they actually… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I didn't quite realise until we started to put together our first cut of 'Wonderstruck' how much time is spent with no… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations.… — 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
