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.
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original. - Todd Solondz
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
- 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
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…
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
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…
That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had … - Todd Solondz
That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had …
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. - Todd Solondz
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.
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
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…
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
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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
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'…
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
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…
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