Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
That said, be mindful, to someone who's never seen any of my work, it's just a movie with actors. So it's only… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it.… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Every time you try to make another movie, you never know what will come of it. I can't say it ever gets… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
You try to make them comfortable so they can do what they're best at, and make them shine. You always want to… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy,… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way.… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity itself has… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth.… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
