Todd Haynes

I love serial drama.

— Todd Haynes

I like to rehearse before blocking.

— Todd Haynes

Each production is its own experience.

— Todd Haynes

I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.

— Todd Haynes

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

— Todd Haynes

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

— Todd Haynes

After 'Superstar,' I was encouraged. I felt audiences wanted to be challenged.

— Todd Haynes

They always find new ways of talking about my movies.

— Todd Haynes

Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied.

— Todd Haynes

I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film.

— Todd Haynes

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

— Todd Haynes

I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career…

— Todd Haynes

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

— Todd Haynes

Making a movie about the love between two women was really a tribute to the lesbian people in my life, my dear…

— Todd Haynes

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

I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received.

— Todd Haynes

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

— Todd Haynes

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

— Todd Haynes

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just…

— Todd Haynes

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

There are always things I have to remove. I might look at a shot for five months, when somebody new to the…

— Todd Haynes

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for…

— Todd Haynes

I love stories of love cropping up unexpectedly in life almost as a problem, as something you don't ask for. Something that…

— Todd Haynes

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these…

— Todd Haynes

In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it…

— Todd Haynes

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

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

People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film. . . . I…

— Todd Haynes

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

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

You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your…

— Todd Haynes

I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for…

— Todd Haynes

I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they…

— Todd Haynes

We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the…

— Todd Haynes

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

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

— Todd Haynes

I don't want to make people feel better.

— Todd Haynes

When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking.

— Todd Haynes

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

— Todd Haynes

'Evil Urges' has some stuff in it that's unbelievable.

— Todd Haynes