American - Director | January 2, 1961 -
A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.
Todd Haynes
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Making a movie about the love between two women was really a tribute to the lesbian people in my life, my dear friends who are seminal in my life.
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I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.
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I felt I would have the most creative freedom making experimental films and teaching, as I had many good examples of people around me who did just that.
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I didn't quite realise until we started to put together our first cut of 'Wonderstruck' how much time is spent with no words spoken whatsoever.
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I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.
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What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.
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I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible.
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In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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