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

- Todd Solondz

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

- Todd Solondz

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 expo…

- Todd Solondz

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

I don't have a formula. Every time an actor wants me to hold their hand, I hold their hand. If they say, "Stay," I say "Okay, respect." You know? "I'…

- Todd Solondz

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 ar…

- Todd Solondz

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

- Todd Solondz

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 pr…

- Todd Solondz

So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth. It's a projection of the ulti…

- Todd Solondz