I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Making a movie about the love between two women was really a tribute to the lesbian people in my life, my dear… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
When you think of the later '50s and 'Far From Heaven' and Eisenhower and Sirk, you think of that Hollywood panache and… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It's only when you look back sometimes and you look at some people in your life and you're like, Oh my god,… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love stories of love cropping up unexpectedly in life almost as a problem, as something you don't ask for. Something that… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
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 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
![“I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian.' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working…” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a42/todd-haynes-2626_american-values_i-know-a-bit-about-his-sirk-life-but-it_1285949.jpg)
![“It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up to me and say that 'Far from Heaven' was exactly what it was like back then. [laughs] I was so disinterested in what it was 'really like' in the 1950s when I was putting the…” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/805/todd-haynes-2626_amazed_it-s-like-our-go-to-notion-of-innocent-a_3106523.jpg)
