Todd Solondz Quotes

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• It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do…
• 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, laughter…
• I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore…
• People cant help how they look.
• At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my…
• Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I…
• 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 me,…
• And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise,…
• Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be…
• In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun…
• Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
• So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
• 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 mind…
• A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end…
• But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.
• Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.
• Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
• One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
• Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
• All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do,…

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