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Top 25 Todd Haynes Quotes (2024 Update)

Todd Haynes Quote: “Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.”

1. “Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.”

2. “I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it’s over for all of us.”

3. “When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it’s over for all of us.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.”

4. “In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “It’s only when you look back sometimes and you look at some people in your life and you’re like, Oh my god, there was something so pure about that. The thing that kind of bugged me, maybe, is the thing that’s so unique.”

5. “It’s only when you look back sometimes and you look at some people in your life and you’re like, Oh my god, there was something so pure about that. The thing that kind of bugged me, maybe, is the thing that’s so unique.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.”

6. “Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “I think that’s what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.”

7. “I think that’s what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you’re living now.”

8. “Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you’re living now.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “I’m a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO’s series for many years.”

9. “I’m a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO’s series for many years.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.”

10. “I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.”

11. “A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “When I write my scripts, there’s a point at which if I’m not starting to see them visually, I feel like I’m kind of cheating. So my scripts are laden with a lot of visual description, which makes them not so much fun to read – I kind of weigh them down.”

13. “When I write my scripts, there’s a point at which if I’m not starting to see them visually, I feel like I’m kind of cheating. So my scripts are laden with a lot of visual description, which makes them not so much fun to read – I kind of weigh them down.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.”

14. “The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “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.”

15. “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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Todd Haynes Quote: “Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.”

16. “Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “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.”

17. “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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Todd Haynes Quote: “I think when you’re trying to get a film together that’s had a long gustation process before I came on board and was trying to get financed in various stages, sometimes you’re trying to make it more friendly to the financial interests or the commercial interests of various parties.”

18. “I think when you’re trying to get a film together that’s had a long gustation process before I came on board and was trying to get financed in various stages, sometimes you’re trying to make it more friendly to the financial interests or the commercial interests of various parties.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “I sort of have a dog-minded single strategy but I am a little more open to stuff that’s out there, now and looking at scripts in the world and seeing if something that already exists can spark my interest and my curiosity.”

19. “I sort of have a dog-minded single strategy but I am a little more open to stuff that’s out there, now and looking at scripts in the world and seeing if something that already exists can spark my interest and my curiosity.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “You want everything for your kids that you didn’t have, but that that very desire can pollute and corrupt the good, basic American pluckiness, resourcefulness and down-to-earthness that we like to pride ourselves with, and result in aspirations of wealth and high culture.”

20. “You want everything for your kids that you didn’t have, but that that very desire can pollute and corrupt the good, basic American pluckiness, resourcefulness and down-to-earthness that we like to pride ourselves with, and result in aspirations of wealth and high culture.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “As an independent filmmaker, to develop the money and the financing and the structure and the whole process, and then promoting them and traveling with them, which is a part of the process that I’ve always enjoyed and I’ve learned a great deal from.”

21. “As an independent filmmaker, to develop the money and the financing and the structure and the whole process, and then promoting them and traveling with them, which is a part of the process that I’ve always enjoyed and I’ve learned a great deal from.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It’s definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.”

22. “In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It’s definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there’s a point where you let it go when you’re making a movie. You just have to. The thing that you shoot is not what you imagined in your head – it never is exactly that. And it shouldn’t be.”

23. “In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there’s a point where you let it go when you’re making a movie. You just have to. The thing that you shoot is not what you imagined in your head – it never is exactly that. And it shouldn’t be.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.”

24. “I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.”

25. “I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “I really want the audience to place close attention to the movement, possibilities of movement, possibilities of trespassing boundaries and observe what’s possible in different social settings, and different settings of class designation as well.”

26. “I really want the audience to place close attention to the movement, possibilities of movement, possibilities of trespassing boundaries and observe what’s possible in different social settings, and different settings of class designation as well.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.”

27. “I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.”

28. “I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.”

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Todd Haynes Quote: “There are always things I have to remove. I might look at a shot for five months, when somebody new to the screening room will say, ‘hey, there’s a modern air conditioner in that window.’ It’s a process.”

29. “There are always things I have to remove. I might look at a shot for five months, when somebody new to the screening room will say, ‘hey, there’s a modern air conditioner in that window.’ It’s a process.”

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