Todd Haynes Quotes

When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.