Todd Solondz Quotes

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 to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.

Todd Solondz

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• When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Free
  • Hand

• I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Feel
  • Story
  • Very

• I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Connection

• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Women
  • Help
  • Man

• As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • You
  • Change
  • Stubborn

• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Important
  • Light
  • Space

• What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Human
  • Conviction
  • Intellect

• I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • You
  • Find

• You've got to be realistic.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • You
  • Got
  • Realistic

• I think being busy is a healthy thing.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Busy

• I love the French horn.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Love
  • I Love
  • French

• There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Rules
  • China
  • Dare

• It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Real
  • You
  • Adventure

• Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Goal
  • Goals

• Chin up, shoulders back. Let ‘em know you’re here. #ProudOfWhoYouAre

  

  Ian Bohen
  • Up

• Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Nice

• It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Trying
  • Attention
  • Box

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• 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 to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Audience
  • Honest
  • Response