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Each production is its own experience.Collection: Todd
'Carol' takes place in the really early '50s, before Eisenhower has taken office. It's based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, her second and most autobiographical book and the only one outside of the crime milieu.Collection: Todd
Serious films for grown-ups - 'Michael Clayton,' 'In the Valley of Elah,' 'A Mighty Heart' - these are big Hollywood films, but they have substance and craft and really beautiful performances.Collection: Todd
Aspects of guilt or handwringing that one might expect in a film set in the '50s about women who discover their love for other women - a lot of these things are not in 'Carol.'Collection: Todd
Sirkian films really aren't - at least the way I see them, they're not about identification. They don't have voiceover. A lot of the love stories that are rooted, classic love stories rooted in point of view, use voiceover as a mechanism for locating you there.Collection: Todd
When you think of the later '50s and 'Far From Heaven' and Eisenhower and Sirk, you think of that Hollywood panache and gloss to American middle-class life.Collection: Todd
'Carol' is so distorted by point-of-view.Collection: Todd
There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting forgotten quickly as we trumpet forward into gay marriage and gays in the military and a much different cultural attitude toward gay lives.Collection: Todd
Cannes is a lot of work, since it's a market festival and a serious festival, and they really work you, understandably.Collection: Todd
There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with.Collection: Todd
At HBO, you've just basically got a studio full of artistically driven smart guys and women who really care about the quality first and foremost.Collection: Todd
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.Collection: Todd
I do think that, yes, one should always be receptive to the fact that there are many different types of audiences, and they are not necessarily in a clean, reductive demographic like they once were.Collection: Todd
I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies.Collection: Todd
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.'Collection: Todd
My very first movie, 'Mary Poppins,' which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to sort of reply to the experience by drawing things, making things. It was like it forced - it made me into this obsessive, creative creature... I don't know any other way of putting it.Collection: Todd
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.Collection: Todd
With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.Collection: Todd
It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.Collection: Todd
By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.Collection: Todd
I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.Collection: Todd
I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them.Collection: Todd
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.Collection: Todd
My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments.Collection: Todd
It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated.Collection: Todd
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.'Collection: Todd
Some directors do recut their films, but I don't if I disagree, and what you suffer is a less passionate marketing campaign, less investment in the film at the other end, which is... fine. I get it.Collection: Todd
A key part of the process for me is having screenings: not official test screenings, just gatherings of people, some I know and some I don't. We ask what is working and what isn't. So it's not as if I'm shutting out input.Collection: Todd
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.Collection: Todd
After 'Superstar,' I was encouraged. I felt audiences wanted to be challenged.Collection: Todd
I like to rehearse before blocking.Collection: Todd
My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle.Collection: Todd
I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.Collection: Todd
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.Collection: Todd
The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people.Collection: Todd
I value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like.Collection: Todd
There are all these languages that keep people in place that conform us to a set of terms. It's why I think the whole idea of identity as something that is something of a straitjacket. That most of us like to think of as natural and innate. That we just find and go, 'Yeah, that's who I am.'Collection: Todd
I love stories of love cropping up unexpectedly in life almost as a problem, as something you don't ask for. Something that messes everything up and makes you rethink everything.Collection: Todd
A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.Collection: Todd
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.Collection: Todd
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.Collection: Todd
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.Collection: Todd
I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible.Collection: Todd
In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.Collection: Todd
With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.Collection: Todd
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.Collection: Todd
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.Collection: Todd
I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.Collection: Todd
Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.Collection: Todd
I love serial drama.Collection: Todd