Todd Haynes Quotes

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

We are unreliable narrators - all of us.

In film as a medium, you're often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it's usually a very definite point of view.

I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.

People think, 'Oh, I don't need to worry about him,' and they underestimate me because I am a rapper.

Don't underestimate this little fat boy.

In my point of view, bad girl is not a villain. Like, people in the United States use 'bad' as referring to something cool. So it means 'Cool girl.' I wish CL was like that.

To me, point of view is everything.

The omniscient narrator is a bizarre technique, when you think about it, and no one uses it much anymore. But for the novels I want to write, it's the only approach that makes sense to me.

I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important to me, to set up a different character who would be the point-of-view character for the story.

Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view.

The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth.

Most people project onto you what they think you can do.

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.