170 Quotes by Todd Haynes

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.

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.

When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking.

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.

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

Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied.

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.

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo.

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.