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" A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair. "

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" '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. "

" 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. "

" At HBO, you've just basically got a studio full of artistically driven smart guys and women who really care about the quality first and foremost. "

" There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with. "

" I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible. "

" My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments. "

" 'Carol' takes place in the really early '50s, before Eisenhower has taken office. It's based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, her second and most autobiographical book and the only one outside of the crime milieu. "

" Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker. "

" I felt 'Brokeback Mountain' re-imbued the love story with an authentic and unquestionable series of obstacles that these men faced. I think that's certainly true for 'Carol' as well. "

" I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint. "

" Each production is its own experience. "

" Cannes is a lot of work, since it's a market festival and a serious festival, and they really work you, understandably. "

" I saw experimental film-makers teaching in college. They did what they wanted and didn't worry about the market, but the circumstances ended up offering me other possibilities. "

" 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 first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet. "

" The first time I saw Douglas Sirk was in college. I didn't encounter him on the late, late, late show like a lot of people; people a little older than me, maybe. But I saw him already as someone to take special note of in an academic context in college. I was immediately in a state of visual splendor. "

" 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. "

" With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama. "

" 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 forgotten quickly as we trumpet forward into gay marriage and gays in the military and a much different cultural attitude toward gay lives. "

" I noticed that there were all these kinds of practices in a working set that had to be un-practiced on 'Far from Heaven,' which was so interesting. "

" Aspects of guilt or handwringing that one might expect in a film set in the '50s about women who discover their love for other women - a lot of these things are not in 'Carol.' "

" 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 prepared as possible, but you're also still bringing people together and saying, 'Trust me,' even when you don't necessarily trust every element. "

" Every actor prepares differently and to different degrees of privacy. Some want to talk everything out. Others really don't want to talk anything out - or rehearse much. "

" Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' 'Network,' and 'The Parallax View': They were drawn from the genre tradition, but they dressed down the stylistic telling of those traditions and genres. "

" When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking. "

" I live in Portland. I'm a man of the world, and I live in Portland. "

" The bond company comes in if you exceed your costs; they're the insurers of the film. In the worst-case scenario, they take over the production. "

" You have to be somewhat ruthless with your work. You have to let things go. Even your favourite little part might not work in the end. "

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

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

" 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 more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole. "