170 Quotes by Todd Haynes

I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true about the world.

With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

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.

I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career as a feature filmmaker.

I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

I love serial drama.

I don't want to make people feel better.

I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.