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
There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
You want everything for your kids that you didn't have, but that that very desire can pollute and corrupt the good, basic… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very… — 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 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
