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" The way I sort of approach my work is that the historical and socioeconomic and cultural worlds that the music is exploring dictate the visual experience and the way that we approach it specifically on film. "

Todd Haynes

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" I like to rehearse before blocking. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters. "

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

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

" It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties. "

Todd Haynes

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" I love serial drama. "

" 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. "

" I love stories of love cropping up unexpectedly in life almost as a problem, as something you don't ask for. Something that messes everything up and makes you rethink everything. "

" My parents are very supportive and proud. "

" Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied. "

" I had really loving parents and a happy childhood. "

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

" It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are all these languages that keep people in place that conform us to a set of terms. It's why I think the whole idea of identity as something that is something of a straitjacket. That most of us like to think of as natural and innate. That we just find and go, 'Yeah, that's who I am.' "

" It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated. "

" Cannes is a lot of work, since it's a market festival and a serious festival, and they really work you, understandably. "

" I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side. "

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

" 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. "

" I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them. "

" 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. "

Todd Haynes

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" 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. "

" You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually. "