Todd Solondz Quotes
I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Yellow's more like, I'm not trying to be this sexy vixen or anything, obviously. I'm a very friendly person, and I literally do just want to be your friend. I think all of that is wrapped up in yellow. It seems to work. I like being in it.
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Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
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I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
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I've had enough of danger And people on the streets I'm looking out for angels Just trying to find some peace Now I think it's time That you let me know So if you love me Say you love me But if you don't just let me go...
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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
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Everybody asks, 'What does 'Humans of New York' mean?' and I always say that I try to avoid putting any kind of message in the work even if it is a positive or optimistic message. The moment you do that, you're looking for certain people and words that fit into the world view you are trying to show, and it becomes preachy.
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I'm always trying to come down with a win. That's what matters to me and my squad.
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It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.
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I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.
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There is something about a theatre room that is really like a laboratory for trying things and failing, because you have time to do that, and you can explore something deeply and discard it if it's not working.
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A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.
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Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.
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All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
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I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.
