All Todd Solondz Quotes
- 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… Baby
- 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… Existence
- 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… Admit
- People cant help how they look. Cant
- 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… Absorbed
- 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… Approached
- 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,… Comfortable
- 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,… Big
- 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… Appropriate
- 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… Character
- Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all. Actor
- So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny. Both
- 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… Asked
- 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… Beginning
- But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am. Anonymity
- Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good. Casting
- Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question. Compels
- One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them. Like Victim
- Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original. Audience
- 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,… All
- As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that… Cannot Escape
- I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the… Anonymity
- I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd… Adapt
- Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just… Accuse
- It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could… Able