170 Quotes by Todd Haynes

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

Every actor prepares differently and to different degrees of privacy. Some want to talk everything out. Others really don't want to talk anything out - or rehearse much.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

Making a movie about the love between two women was really a tribute to the lesbian people in my life, my dear friends who are seminal in my life.