Todd Haynes Quotes

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.

Making surf films for a living isn't my business anymore, so it's really more of a way to get creative and have a lot of fun with it.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

I always wanted to teach.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.

The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.