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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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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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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Leadership is something I was born with.
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The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.'
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I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can't figure out how to make into a belt?
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I'm a huge fan, and I didn't grow up with it, I didn't grow up reading 'X-Men' comics. I became a huge fan; I had somebody in my company who gave me the biographies of all the characters. I read Logan's first and was like, 'What a great, tragic character.' I just loved him.
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'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.
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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.
