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
It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film. . . . I… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick… — 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… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I think when you're trying to get a film together that's had a long gustation process before I came on board and… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is… — 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
