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

- Todd Haynes

There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to really listen and respect each actor's …

- Todd Haynes

I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. From a filmmaker's standpoint, that's so rare and pure…

- Todd Haynes

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

- Todd Haynes

In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it go when you're making a movie. You just …

- Todd Haynes

In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick to, but actually something that is co…

- Todd Haynes

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations.…

- Todd Haynes

I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination …

- Todd Haynes

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

- Todd Haynes