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
My very first movie, 'Mary Poppins,' which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20. — 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
In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it… — 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
Once you are shooting a movie, even if it's your own script, you have to let it go at a certain point.… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language… — 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
With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding… — 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
