95 Quotes by Todd Solondz

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don’t want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It’s in real life that people are over the top.

So far, at least, I haven’t found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That’s my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.

One thing I want to say: I don’t like victim stories and I don’t write them.

I mean, I don’t want to sound – of course it’s very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It’s a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

The ability to take pleasure in one’s life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

I don’t make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.