KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Todd Haynes Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Todd Haynes

Showing 31-40 of 111 Quotes by Todd Haynes

'Mildred' was the first film I shot on Super 16 with Ed Lachman, and we decided to continue doing so for 'Carol.'

~Todd Haynes

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film.

~Todd Haynes

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm pretty single-minded, unlike a lot of directors who miraculously seem to be holding six projects in their hand at a given time and juggling them accordingly.

~Todd Haynes

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


They always find new ways of talking about my movies.

~Todd Haynes

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When 'Safe' came out, it was treated respectfully but kind of forgotten. Then, by the end of the '90s, it somehow made it onto all these best-of-the-decade lists.

~Todd Haynes

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm always interested in what classic crime writers got into when they stepped away from the genre stuff they were known for. That's why 'Mildred Pierce' is like noir without any real crime.

~Todd Haynes

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


All actors are protecting something, in their own way, that happens in front of a camera.

~Todd Haynes

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Todd Haynes

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Todd Haynes

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Todd Haynes

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 2nd, 1961

Links

Find Todd Haynes on Amazon

Related Authors

Woody Allen
Tim Burton
James Cameron
Stanley Kubrick
George Lucas
David Lynch
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino

Popular Authors

Alexander Graham Bell Brene Brown Leo Buscaglia Amelia Earhart John Stuart Mill Nas Ronald Reagan Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Best Change Cool Funny Government Imagination Medical Truth