Todd Haynes Quotes

I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making movies and telling stories.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa, America, everywhere. I'm still a 13-year-old kid, flying.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

I remember, when I was a little kid playing with the 25 Legos I had, I thought, 'If I just had a camera, I could film different setups and make it look like I have way more Legos and tell a story.' I didn't get a camera, though, until I basically got an iPhone.

My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot.

Cinema is about transferring thought into action.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

Since when I was little, I would always write a script and tell my sister, 'Read this line. I'm going to film it.'

I enjoy being an actor in my own movies.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.