Cinema Quote by Todd Haynes

“I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies.”

Todd Haynes

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I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.

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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.

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Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant…

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I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film.

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I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

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It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.

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I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

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Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette is slightly dissonant.

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I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were…

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'Evil Urges' has some stuff in it that's unbelievable.

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Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.'

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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…

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