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" I've been really lucky with critical reaction, overall, even if my films don't often resemble each other. "
Todd Haynes
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" When you think of the later '50s and 'Far From Heaven' and Eisenhower and Sirk, you think of that Hollywood panache and gloss to American middle-class life. "
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" I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters. "
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" You'll see in 'Carol' a lot of shots shot through windows, glass and awnings, with interruptions between where we are and where our object is. To me, I hope that that conjures the whole act of looking as a predicament, as something that is never easy and never completely attainable. "
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" I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your cynical zone, and open yourself up to what other people might experience and why they do so. "
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Comfort Zone
Yourself
" 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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" My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle. "
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" I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies. "
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People
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" 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. "
Todd Haynes
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Passionate
You
" 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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" A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair. "
Todd Haynes
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Matter
Old
" 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
" 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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Think
Nor
" I don't want to make people feel better. "
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Feel
Want
People
" There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with. "
Todd Haynes
Work
Chance
Creative
" 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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" 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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" I live in Portland. I'm a man of the world, and I live in Portland. "
Todd Haynes
World
Live
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" I'll never forget watching 'I'm Not There' with Cate Blanchett, because it was the first time she saw the finished film and saw her performance in it. I was sitting next to her experiencing it vicariously through her fresh eyes and hoping she liked it. "
Todd Haynes
Time
Sitting
She
" 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. "
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Moment
Rock
Musicians
" When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking. "
Todd Haynes
Huge
Somewhere
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" 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
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" It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties. "
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" Serious films for grown-ups - 'Michael Clayton,' 'In the Valley of Elah,' 'A Mighty Heart' - these are big Hollywood films, but they have substance and craft and really beautiful performances. "
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" 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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Words
First
Started
" 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.' "
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Guilt
Film
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" 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
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Up
College
Me
" A key part of the process for me is having screenings: not official test screenings, just gatherings of people, some I know and some I don't. We ask what is working and what isn't. So it's not as if I'm shutting out input. "
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Key
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Test
" 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. "
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Fun
Like
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" 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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Work
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