End Quote by Todd Haynes

I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.

— Todd Haynes

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

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

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

— Todd Haynes

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

— Todd Haynes

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

— Todd Haynes

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

— Todd Haynes

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

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

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

— Todd Haynes

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

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