Film Quotes by Todd Solondz

12 Film quotes by Todd Solondz

Todd Solondz’s brief set of 12 quotes feels like a quiet, unsettling conversation about cinema’s darker corners. He invites readers to consider discomfort as a narrative tool rather than a flaw.

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Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

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I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

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A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.

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When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem…

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That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the…

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You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not…

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Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering…

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I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain…

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Every time you try to make another movie, you never know what will come of it. I can't say it ever gets…

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I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves…

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People call you "director," but it really should be "economic manager." Because everything is "Well, we can do another take here, but…

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I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is…

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I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like…

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Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

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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…

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