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" 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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" There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting forgotten quickly as we trumpet forward into gay marriage and gays in the military and a much different cultural attitude toward gay lives. "

" By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be. "

" Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette is slightly dissonant. "

" The highest-caliber dramatic work produced for TV - not just in cable but something like 'The Good Wife' at network - is consistently great. "

" The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party. "

" 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. "

" I love serial drama. "

" 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. "

" I started 'Carol' as I almost always do, by looking at films from the time, and they were less - they actually felt less relevant to me in terms of their bigness, although we do have some big '50s-type moments in 'Carol.' "

" 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. "

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

" Sirkian films really aren't - at least the way I see them, they're not about identification. They don't have voiceover. A lot of the love stories that are rooted, classic love stories rooted in point of view, use voiceover as a mechanism for locating you there. "

" Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.' "

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

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

" 'Mildred' was the first film I shot on Super 16 with Ed Lachman, and we decided to continue doing so for 'Carol.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like to rehearse before blocking. "

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

" Without sounding sexist, you have to cast a real man opposite Cate Blanchett. You need a guy who's grown up. "

" In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way. "

" Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like. "