Todd Solondz Quotes
I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is of course you can see how I play with the characters, the storylines, and the way things play off each other. And the minus is that it makes you a little bit more self-conscious, that you're not able to enter the movie as it exists and lives and breathes, because you're so busy making references, connections that you're not able to release yourself from and take the film on your own terms.
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Golf is not easy.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.
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Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.
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The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.
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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
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Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.
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Everybody said, You hit it so big when you were on Ally McBeal. I didnt do anything for a year after Ally McBeal, and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on Ally a second time because I thought the character should be on again.
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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
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I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is of course you can see how I play with the characters, the storylines, and the way things play off each other. And the minus is that it makes you a little bit more self-conscious, that you're not able to enter the movie as it exists and lives and breathes, because you're so busy making references, connections that you're not able to release yourself from and take the film on your own terms.
