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" I'm pretty single-minded, unlike a lot of directors who miraculously seem to be holding six projects in their hand at a given time and juggling them accordingly. "
Todd Haynes
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" My parents are very supportive and proud. "
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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. "
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Artist
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" 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. "
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" Films like 'Velvet Goldmine' are an accumulation of research and references. I create an almost random resource of connections and am constantly distilling that into narrative specifics. "
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" I remember going to see '2001' with my dad. "
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Remember
" 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. "
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Time
Always
" I had really loving parents and a happy childhood. "
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Loving
Happy
" In high school - that's when I first fell in love with his music and his voice. 'Blonde on Blonde' above everything. I vaguely remember 'Desire' coming out. I definitely remember 'Street Legal' and 'Slow Train Coming.' The first time I saw Dylan was on that tour: '79 in L.A. "
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" 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
" 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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You
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" Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.' "
Todd Haynes
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Like
" 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. "
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Saying
Ideas
People
" 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. "
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Music
True
Me
" '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. "
Todd Haynes
New
Place
Feeling
" 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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You
Over
Your
" 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. "
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Society
Culture
Motion
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Moment
Up
Off
" The highest-caliber dramatic work produced for TV - not just in cable but something like 'The Good Wife' at network - is consistently great. "
Todd Haynes
Work
Good
Good Wife
" It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before. "
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You
Feel
Kind
" 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. "
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People
Creative
Good
" 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. "
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Crime
Like
Classic
" I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire. "
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Lover
Cinema
Expire
" 'Mildred' was the first film I shot on Super 16 with Ed Lachman, and we decided to continue doing so for 'Carol.' "
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Shot
Doing
Continue
" I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world. "
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Alive
World
" 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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People
Some People
Got
" There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with. "
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Work
Chance
Creative
" Cannes is a lot of work, since it's a market festival and a serious festival, and they really work you, understandably. "
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Market
You
Work
" 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
" 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. "
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Work
In The End
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" 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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