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" In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way. "
Todd Haynes
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Brilliant
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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. "
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New
Place
Feeling
" I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in. "
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Moment
Looking
Think
" I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire. "
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Lover
Cinema
Expire
" 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
" 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
Ruthless
" 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. "
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Moment
Up
Off
" When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking. "
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Huge
Somewhere
Cannes
" 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
People
Forward
" 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
" 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. "
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People
Late
Time
" 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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Just
Matter
Old
" I've been really lucky with critical reaction, overall, even if my films don't often resemble each other. "
Todd Haynes
Each
Lucky
Other
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Words
First
Started
" We yearn for the desire to triumph, and it almost never does in the greatest love stories because we're left yearning for it more in the end, and we wish the world were different as a result. I do love that. "
Todd Haynes
World
End
Love
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Out
Expect
Desire
" My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle. "
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Something
Problem
Safe
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Interesting
Breaking
Down
" Without sounding sexist, you have to cast a real man opposite Cate Blanchett. You need a guy who's grown up. "
Todd Haynes
Real Man
Real
Need
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Little
First
Kid
" I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language. "
Todd Haynes
Language
Find
You
" My very first movie, 'Mary Poppins,' which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to sort of reply to the experience by drawing things, making things. It was like it forced - it made me into this obsessive, creative creature... I don't know any other way of putting it. "
Todd Haynes
Know
Creative
Drawing
" I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man. "
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Man
How
Citizen
" My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments. "
Todd Haynes
Identity
Cultures
Moments
" 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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Connections
Create
Random
" I live in Portland. I'm a man of the world, and I live in Portland. "
Todd Haynes
World
Live
Portland
" 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
" 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
" Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology. "
Todd Haynes
Every
Own
Experience
" All actors are protecting something, in their own way, that happens in front of a camera. "
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Camera
Happens
Own
" 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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Movie
Work
Director