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

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• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Think
  • Call
  • Feminists

• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Like
  • Got

• Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Death
  • Unknown

• Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Film
  • Horror

• I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Reality
  • Lost
  • Thought

• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Interest

• What's more American than violence?' Hayduke wanted to know. 'Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • American
  • Violence
  • Pizza

• It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • People

• The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

  

  James Madison
  • Society
  • Interesting
  • Decision

• I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • School
  • Law
  • Confidence

• Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

  

  Brian Jacques
  • Kids
  • Animal

• An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.

  

  David Bergen

• If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Long

• The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

  

  Chris Chocola
  • Law
  • Wall

• There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Pride
  • Soldier

• One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Question
  • Space
  • Weird

• I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • People
  • Together
  • Want

• The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Memory
  • Hit
  • Superstition

• I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Rock
  • Couple

• 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
  • Eye
  • Pride
  • Fate