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13 quotes by Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes Haynes at the 2009 premiere of Whatever Works Born (1961-01-02) January 2, 1961 (age 54) Encino, California, U.S. Years active 1985–present Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961) is an American independent film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There.
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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... →

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I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

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Making a film is so scary, and there's such a kind of void that you're working from initially. I mean, you can have all the ideas and be as... →

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I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received.

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I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

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

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

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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... →

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

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I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were... →

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I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the... →

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It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind... →

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Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations.... →

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