Todd Haynes

“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.”

“Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' 'Network,' and 'The Parallax View': They were drawn from the genre tradition, but they dressed down the stylistic telling of those traditions and genres.”

“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.”

“I don't want to make people feel better.”

“At the time I made 'Safe,' I was really intrigued by the whole culture around AIDS, which was turning to people like Louise Hay and these other West Coast New Age thinkers.”

“'Carol' is so distorted by point-of-view.”

“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.”

“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.”

“'Evil Urges' has some stuff in it that's unbelievable.”

“I noticed that there were all these kinds of practices in a working set that had to be un-practiced on 'Far from Heaven,' which was so interesting.”

“A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.”