Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Todd Solondz - Page 2

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

There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.

I love working with actors. I do.

That said, be mindful, to someone who's never seen any of my work, it's just a movie with actors. So it's only those who of course know the earlier work that will see something is afoot, so to speak. But I don't want to intellectualize.

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.

Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.

Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.