Todd Haynes : (6)

" I had really loving parents and a happy childhood. " - Todd Haynes

" At the time I made ‘Safe,’ I was really intrigued by the whole culture around AIDS, which was turning to people like Louise Hay and these other West Coast New Age thinkers. " - Todd Haynes

" I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that’s the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole. " - Todd Haynes

" By the time I finished ‘Poison,’ the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be. " - Todd Haynes

" Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can’t be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively. " - Todd Haynes

" Making a movie about the love between two women was really a tribute to the lesbian people in my life, my dear friends who are seminal in my life. " - Todd Haynes