Todd Haynes Quotes

Working with Timbaland, you know it's not gonna sound like anything else out there today. The sound is very next-level.

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)

Flexibility. Oh, that's pretty clearly saying that what Donald Trump said to The New York Times is very different than what he's saying to the American people. He is not the real deal. He is a phony.

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

A liar is full of oaths.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

I'm drawn to the stuff that's maybe a little bit on the fringe. Part of that is just practical sometimes. We can't compete with the major labels for some acts, so you figure, "Okay, what could I introduce to people, or what do I like that is within my means?"

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.

Your truths are worse than your lies.