Film Quotes by 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

They always find new ways of talking about my movies.

— Todd Haynes

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

— Todd Haynes

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

— Todd Haynes

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

— Todd Haynes

It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated.

— Todd Haynes

I've been really lucky with critical reaction, overall, even if my films don't often resemble each other.

— Todd Haynes

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language…

— Todd Haynes

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

I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up.…

— Todd Haynes

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot…

— 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'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

— Todd Haynes

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

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

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

I came to this project and 'Far from Heaven' from completely different vantage points. 'Heaven' was of course about the Douglas Sirk…

— Todd Haynes

In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure…

— Todd Haynes

I hope it's water under the bridge, but Richard Carpenter is a complicated individual, and he's also entitled to his own opinion…

— Todd Haynes

I think when you're trying to get a film together that's had a long gustation process before I came on board and…

— 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

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... Heterosexuality to me is…

— Todd Haynes

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

— Todd Haynes

I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out…

— 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

Aspects of guilt or handwringing that one might expect in a film set in the '50s about women who discover their love…

— Todd Haynes

The way I sort of approach my work is that the historical and socioeconomic and cultural worlds that the music is exploring…

— Todd Haynes

'Mildred' was the first film I shot on Super 16 with Ed Lachman, and we decided to continue doing so for 'Carol.'

— Todd Haynes

Some directors do recut their films, but I don't if I disagree, and what you suffer is a less passionate marketing campaign,…

— Todd Haynes

Serious films for grown-ups - 'Michael Clayton,' 'In the Valley of Elah,' 'A Mighty Heart' - these are big Hollywood films, but…

— Todd Haynes

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous…

— Todd Haynes

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

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because…

— Todd Haynes

As an independent filmmaker, to develop the money and the financing and the structure and the whole process, and then promoting them…

— Todd Haynes

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' 'Network,' and 'The Parallax View': They were drawn from the genre tradition, but they…

— Todd Haynes

The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity…

— Todd Haynes

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

I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary…

— Todd Haynes