Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I started 'Carol' as I almost always do, by looking at films from the time, and they were less - they actually… — 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
