Author: Todd Haynes

Quotes

I love stories of love cropping up unexpectedly in life almost as a problem, as something you don't ask for. Something that messes everything up and makes you rethink everything.

I love stories of love cropping up unexpectedly in life almost as a problem, as something you don't ask for. Something that messes everything up and makes you rethink everything.

- Todd Haynes

'Carol' takes place at a time the country was crawling out of the shadows of the war years, feeling the new vulnerabilities of the Cold War and conflicts within the union.

'Carol' takes place at a time the country was crawling out of the shadows of the war years, feeling the new vulnerabilities of the Cold War and conflicts within the union.

- Todd Haynes

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.

- Todd Haynes

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

- Todd Haynes

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

- Todd Haynes

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

- Todd Haynes

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

- Todd Haynes

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.

- Todd Haynes

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