Todd Haynes Quotes

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Todd Haynes

Profession : Director

Birth : January 2, 1961

I didn't quite realise until we started to put together our first cut of 'Wonderstruck' how much time is spent with no words spoken whatsoever.

Todd Haynes

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

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 not being heard in the '60s, like women and gay people, were being heard in the '70s. Black Civil Rights had also found its foothold, and those ideas were also very pertinent.

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In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.

Todd Haynes

With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

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I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's not something that everybody's circumstances allow for.

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I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career as a feature filmmaker.

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I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.

Todd Haynes

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

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I love serial drama.

Todd Haynes