Character Quote by Todd Solondz

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

— Todd Solondz

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…

— Todd Solondz

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,…

— Todd Solondz

For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way.…

— Todd Solondz

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

— Todd Solondz

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it…

— Todd Solondz

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like…

— Todd Solondz

I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more…

— Todd Solondz

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

— Todd Solondz

What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity itself has…

— Todd Solondz

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…

— Todd Solondz

So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth.…

— Todd Solondz