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" They always find new ways of talking about my movies. "
Todd Haynes
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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. "
Todd Haynes
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Comfort Zone
Yourself
" 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
" 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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Film
Expect
" Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.' "
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Wanted
Genres
Like
" 'Carol' takes place in the really early '50s, before Eisenhower has taken office. It's based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, her second and most autobiographical book and the only one outside of the crime milieu. "
Todd Haynes
Place
Book
Crime
" I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while. "
Todd Haynes
Process
Since
Slow
" I've been really lucky with critical reaction, overall, even if my films don't often resemble each other. "
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Each
Lucky
Other
" It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties. "
Todd Haynes
Feeling
Any
Like
" When 'Safe' came out, it was treated respectfully but kind of forgotten. Then, by the end of the '90s, it somehow made it onto all these best-of-the-decade lists. "
Todd Haynes
Out
Safe
End
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Interesting
Marriage
Attitude
" I love serial drama. "
Todd Haynes
Drama
Serial
Love
" 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
" 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
" 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.' "
Todd Haynes
Place
Think
People
" With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama. "
Todd Haynes
Thinking
Story
Love
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Think
Gay
Women
" 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
" The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity for independent film visions to find their footing in a vastly shifting market. They love cinema. "
Todd Haynes
True
Cinema
Movies
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Art
Enough
Literature
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
People
Creative
Good
" 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
Investment
Passionate
You
" Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied. "
Todd Haynes
Applied
Sometimes
Melodrama
" I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. "
Todd Haynes
Think
Artist
I Think
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
You
Over
Your
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Easy
Hope
Looking
" When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking. "
Todd Haynes
Huge
Somewhere
Cannes
" 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
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
Relationship
Power
Society
" 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. "
Todd Haynes
See
Point Of View
Love
" I live in Portland. I'm a man of the world, and I live in Portland. "
Todd Haynes
World
Live
Portland