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Todd Haynes Quotes

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.

Todd Haynes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 2, 1961

Topics

Power Language You Lose Find Movies

The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.

Jenna Wortham

Freedom Effort Self Connection Lose

You can't take a kid from north Alabama and growing up in church - some of that is just gonna seep out.

Anderson East

Growing Up Church You Growing Kid

If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Best California System Would Ever

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Robert H. Schuller

Failure Victory Meaningless Then

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

John Wozniak

Love Sadness Infinite Way Never Get

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

Steve Brown

Recording Studio Recording Studio Use

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

Stephen Cambone

Nature Change Intelligence Picture

I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.

Lloyd Blankfein

Confidence People Saying Situation

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.

Jasmine Guy

Good Me Door Feel Good Feel Poverty

'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'

Dick Van Dyke

Success Me Control Bond Down Bang

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

Deborah Eisenberg

Patience Waiting Me Writing Way Out

The 1970s crystallized the service mantra as we now know it.

Bruce Nordstrom

Service Know Now Mantra 1970s