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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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