For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy,… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way.… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
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… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth.… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
