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
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
The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
We yearn for the desire to triumph, and it almost never does in the greatest love stories because we're left yearning for… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sirkian films really aren't - at least the way I see them, they're not about identification. They don't have voiceover. A lot… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that,… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I felt 'Brokeback Mountain' re-imbued the love story with an authentic and unquestionable series of obstacles that these men faced. I think… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Aspects of guilt or handwringing that one might expect in a film set in the '50s about women who discover their love… — 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
The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity… — 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
In high school - that's when I first fell in love with his music and his voice. 'Blonde on Blonde' above everything.… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love… — 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
![“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 out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/12f/todd-haynes-2626_driven_in-male-driven-films-the-protagonist-is_1855729.jpg)
