170 Quotes by Todd Haynes

The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people.

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.

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.

'Carol' is so distorted by point-of-view.

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

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.

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

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

When you're shooting concert scenes in films, we try to bring in, where appropriate, as much of a sense of live performance as possible.