Todd Solondz Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.”

“Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.”

“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.”

“Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.”

“When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.”

“I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.”

“So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.”

“Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.”

“One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.”

“People can't help how they look.”