A biography for Todd Hayneshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“The bond company comes in if you exceed your costs; they're the insurers of the film. In the worst-case scenario, they take over the production.”
“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.”
“I saw experimental film-makers teaching in college. They did what they wanted and didn't worry about the market, but the circumstances ended up offering me other possibilities.”
“Cannes is a lot of work, since it's a market festival and a serious festival, and they really work you, understandably.”
“In high school - that's when I first fell in love with his music and his voice. 'Blonde on Blonde' above everything. I vaguely remember 'Desire' coming out. I definitely remember 'Street Legal' and 'Slow Train Coming.' The first time I saw Dylan was on that tour: '79 in L.A.”
“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.”
“When 'Safe' came out, it was treated respectfully but kind of forgotten. Then, by the end of the '90s, it somehow made it onto all these best-of-the-decade lists.”
“I live in Portland. I'm a man of the world, and I live in Portland.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.”
“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.”
“I started 'Carol' as I almost always do, by looking at films from the time, and they were less - they actually felt less relevant to me in terms of their bigness, although we do have some big '50s-type moments in 'Carol.'”
“I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were not being heard in the '60s, like women and gay people, were being heard in the '70s. Black Civil Rights had also found its foothold, and those ideas were also very pertinent.”
“I remember going to see '2001' with my dad.”
“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.”
“Without sounding sexist, you have to cast a real man opposite Cate Blanchett. You need a guy who's grown up.”
“I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.”