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… — 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
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical… — 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
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
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
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
I've been really lucky with critical reaction, overall, even if my films don't often resemble each other. — 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
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 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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while. — 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
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative. — 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 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
When you're shooting concert scenes in films, we try to bring in, where appropriate, as much of a sense of live performance… — 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 Image
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 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
It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
