When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking. — 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 value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I do think that, yes, one should always be receptive to the fact that there are many different types of audiences, and… — 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… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' 'Network,' and 'The Parallax View': They were drawn from the genre tradition, but they… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in what classic crime writers got into when they stepped away from the genre stuff they were known for.… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that… — 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
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
I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world. — Todd Haynes Copy Share
It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties. — Todd Haynes Copy Share
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
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
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
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
It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with,… — Todd Haynes Copy Share
What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking… — Todd Haynes Copy Share
My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments. — Todd Haynes Copy Share
