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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. - Todd Solondz Quotes
All I mean is, Im not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, its not very loud. That doesnt mean I dont like the movie. - Todd Solondz Quotes
And thats just what Im 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
As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesnt matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape. - Todd Solondz Quotes
But anonymity is very important to me, and I dont want to be recognized in public more than I already am. - Todd Solondz Quotes
But youre right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good. - Todd Solondz Quotes
I admit theres an element of brutality in all my work - its part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing Im trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other peoples pain and humiliation. - Todd Solondz Quotes
I dont like telling people where I stand on this, although Im surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say Im pro-choice, if I make that clear, it lets the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, its alright hes pro-choice then I can enjoy this. - Todd Solondz Quotes
I mean, I dont want to sound - of course its 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
I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. Id like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse Im too drawn by my own material. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Ill just say, you hope you have an imagination at work you hope it has the support of your life experience and what youve observed and so forth. - 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. - Todd Solondz Quotes
It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Many people think my movies come out of the deepest feelings of bitterness and cynicism and hostility and not out of any positive feelings at all. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. - Todd Solondz Quotes
One thing I want to say: I dont like victim stories and I dont write them. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for ones physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - its partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once theyve seen me. - Todd Solondz Quotes
People cant help how they look. - Todd Solondz Quotes
So far, at least, I havent found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. - Todd Solondz Quotes
The ability to take pleasure in ones life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. - Todd Solondz Quotes
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually its because they recognize me, and they say nice things. - Todd Solondz Quotes
To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie theyre watching isnt the original. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesnt run dry, I imagine this will be the case. - 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. Its in real life that people are over the top. - Todd Solondz Quotes
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Audience Because Beginning Change Comedy Dark Different
Directions Directors Disguise Doesnt Dont Dress Each
Hate Instead Itself Just Kind Laugh Like
Loud Mean Mirror Movie Never Other Pattern
People Same Saying Shades Test That Thats
They Very Want Wear What Word Would
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