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Todd Solondz Quotes: "Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths."

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same."

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.




Todd Solondz Quotes: "The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence."

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top."

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.




Todd Solondz Quotes: "So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny."

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original."

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that."

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.




Todd Solondz Quotes: "Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me."

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good."

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,."

It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all."

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me."

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.




Todd Solondz Quotes: "All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie."

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them."

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters."

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it."

Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make."

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions."

If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are."

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "I love working with actors. I do."

I love working with actors. I do.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in."

When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions."

I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "I think success is a lot more healthy than failure."

I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable."

There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room."

I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again."

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going exactly where you think it's going, or expecting it to be going."

You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going exactly where you think it's going, or expecting it to be going.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best."

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it."

A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy."

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "People cant help how they look."

People cant help how they look.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question."

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am."

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one."

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them."

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.



Todd Solondz Quotes: "The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things."

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.