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" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Play
Secret
Always
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Me
" 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. "
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Everything
Others
" 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. "
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First
Started
" It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20. "
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Half
Hollywood
" After 'Superstar,' I was encouraged. I felt audiences wanted to be challenged. "
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Felt
Challenged
Wanted
" 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. "
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Life
Art
Always
" 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. "
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Performance
You
Live
" I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn. "
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Love
Always
I Love
" 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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Think
Artist
I Think
" 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. "
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Dressed
View
Tradition
" 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. "
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Investment
Passionate
You
" 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. "
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Know
Think
Nor
" It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated. "
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Thinking
Appreciated
Generation
" At the time I made 'Safe,' I was really intrigued by the whole culture around AIDS, which was turning to people like Louise Hay and these other West Coast New Age thinkers. "
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People
Time
Age
" I remember going to see '2001' with my dad. "
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Dad
See
Remember
" 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. "
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Think
Mountain
Love
" With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama. "
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Thinking
Story
Love
" 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. "
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Safe
End
" Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette is slightly dissonant. "
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Tired
Find
Looking
" 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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Art
Enough
Literature
" I had really loving parents and a happy childhood. "
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Parents
Loving
Happy
" 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. "
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Little
First
Kid
" Without sounding sexist, you have to cast a real man opposite Cate Blanchett. You need a guy who's grown up. "
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Real
Need
" 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 think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while. "
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Process
Since
Slow
" Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied. "
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Applied
Sometimes
Melodrama