Quotes by Todd Solondz

Todd Solondz

And that’s just what I’m saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Dark

Hate

People

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn’t mean the work doesn’t have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

Art

Impact

Mean

At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my ‘work.’ At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

Creative

Reading

Writing

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It’s a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

Compromise

Kind

Parcel

Every time you try to make another movie, you never know what will come of it. I can’t say it ever gets easier, but it is in it’s own way gratifying. I think that because no one movie that you make ever quite satisfies you, you’re always feeling, “Next time I can get it right.”

Feelings

Thinking

Trying

I can’t please everybody and I don’t try to. If I can please myself that’s enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

Enough

Hoping For The Best

Trying

I love working with actors. I do.

Actors

I mean, I don’t want to sound – of course it’s very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

Loss

Mean

Nice

I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

Healthy

Thinking

I think there are many advantages to not knowing any of my prior work. The narrative threads, I think, are totally accessible to anyone who may never have heard of me. There’s a beginning, a middle, and an end – I don’t think there’s going to be any confusion there.

Confusion

Thinking

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Actors

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Believe

Bridges

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Confusion

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Dark

Emotional

Enough

Eye

Fate

Feelings

Fun

Funny Things

Gun

Hate

Healthy

Honest

Hoping For The Best

Hype

Impact

Jobs

Kind

Kindness

Loss

Mean

Mind

Mtv

Nice

Paper

Parcel

Pens

People

Pride

Reading

Response

Self

Sometimes

Sorry

Speak

Stories

Stranger

Thinking

Trying

Unique

Vacant

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Quotes by Todd Solondz

Todd Solondz

And that’s just what I’m saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn’t mean the work doesn’t have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my ‘work.’ At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It’s a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

Every time you try to make another movie, you never know what will come of it. I can’t say it ever gets easier, but it is in it’s own way gratifying. I think that because no one movie that you make ever quite satisfies you, you’re always feeling, “Next time I can get it right.”

I can’t please everybody and I don’t try to. If I can please myself that’s enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

I love working with actors. I do.

I mean, I don’t want to sound – of course it’s very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

I think there are many advantages to not knowing any of my prior work. The narrative threads, I think, are totally accessible to anyone who may never have heard of me. There’s a beginning, a middle, and an end – I don’t think there’s going to be any confusion there.

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