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" 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. "

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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. Music inspired me as a filmmaker. "

" I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" '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. "

" I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true about the world. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I do think that, yes, one should always be receptive to the fact that there are many different types of audiences, and they are not necessarily in a clean, reductive demographic like they once were. "

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

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

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" I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film. "

" I'm always interested in what classic crime writers got into when they stepped away from the genre stuff they were known for. That's why 'Mildred Pierce' is like noir without any real crime. "

" When 'Safe' came out, it was treated respectfully but kind of forgotten. Then, by the end of the '90s, it somehow made it onto all these best-of-the-decade lists. "

" Some directors do recut their films, but I don't if I disagree, and what you suffer is a less passionate marketing campaign, less investment in the film at the other end, which is... fine. I get it. "

" What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing. "

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

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

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

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

" I like to rehearse before blocking. "

" I remember going to see '2001' with my dad. "

" 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. "