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" After 'Superstar,' I was encouraged. I felt audiences wanted to be challenged. "

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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. "

" Without sounding sexist, you have to cast a real man opposite Cate Blanchett. You need a guy who's grown up. "

" When you're shooting concert scenes in films, we try to bring in, where appropriate, as much of a sense of live performance as possible. "

" I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable about what's going on. And literature has played a big part in my life. "

" It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated. "

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

" 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. "

" I've been really lucky with critical reaction, overall, even if my films don't often resemble each other. "

" They always find new ways of talking about my movies. "

" Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can't be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively. "

" There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo. "

" 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. "

" It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Sirkian films really aren't - at least the way I see them, they're not about identification. They don't have voiceover. A lot of the love stories that are rooted, classic love stories rooted in point of view, use voiceover as a mechanism for locating you there. "

" Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied. "

" I started 'Carol' as I almost always do, by looking at films from the time, and they were less - they actually felt less relevant to me in terms of their bigness, although we do have some big '50s-type moments in 'Carol.' "

" All actors are protecting something, in their own way, that happens in front of a camera. "

" There are all these languages that keep people in place that conform us to a set of terms. It's why I think the whole idea of identity as something that is something of a straitjacket. That most of us like to think of as natural and innate. That we just find and go, 'Yeah, that's who I am.' "

" Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette is slightly dissonant. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up. We just hit it off, and it's such a beautiful moment in that film. "

" Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.' "

" 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. "

" I felt I would have the most creative freedom making experimental films and teaching, as I had many good examples of people around me who did just that. "

" 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.' "