American - Director | January 2, 1961 -
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.
Todd Haynes
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I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.
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I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received.
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Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.
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It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before.
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It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.
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I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.
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I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up. We just hit it off, and it's such a beautiful moment in that film.
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The way I sort of approach my work is that the historical and socioeconomic and cultural worlds that the music is exploring dictate the visual experience and the way that we approach it specifically on film.
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'Evil Urges' has some stuff in it that's unbelievable.
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When you're shooting concert scenes in films, we try to bring in, where appropriate, as much of a sense of live performance as possible.
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'Carol' takes place at a time the country was crawling out of the shadows of the war years, feeling the new vulnerabilities of the Cold War and conflicts within the union.
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