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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For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.
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Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.
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Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.
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She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn't have to worry about a thing and that someone else would take care of everything. How easy life would be without having grown-up problems to worry about. And then she could grow up all over again.
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To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
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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.
