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Todd Haynes Quotes

American - Director | January 2, 1961 -

Some directors do recut their films, but I don't if I disagree, and what you suffer is a less passionate marketing campaign, less investment in the film at the other end, which is... fine. I get it.

End You Marketing Investment Suffer

A key part of the process for me is having screenings: not official test screenings, just gatherings of people, some I know and some I don't. We ask what is working and what isn't. So it's not as if I'm shutting out input.

People Me Key Process Know Test

You have to be somewhat ruthless with your work. You have to let things go. Even your favourite little part might not work in the end.

Work End You Go Little Things

After 'Superstar,' I was encouraged. I felt audiences wanted to be challenged.

Superstar Wanted Challenged After

I like to rehearse before blocking.

Like Blocking Before Rehearse

My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle.

Problem Safe Something Would Giggle

Films like 'Velvet Goldmine' are an accumulation of research and references. I create an almost random resource of connections and am constantly distilling that into narrative specifics.

Research Random Connections Create

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

Love Always Visual Drawn I Love

I'll never forget watching 'I'm Not There' with Cate Blanchett, because it was the first time she saw the finished film and saw her performance in it. I was sitting next to her experiencing it vicariously through her fresh eyes and hoping she liked it.

Eyes Time Performance Never Forget

The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people.

Time People Worth Cinema Gay New

I value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like.

Value Being Cast Like Margins Felt

There are all these languages that keep people in place that conform us to a set of terms. It's why I think the whole idea of identity as something that is something of a straitjacket. That most of us like to think of as natural and innate. That we just find and go, 'Yeah, that's who I am.'

I Am Identity People Think Find Go

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