Todd Haynes Quotes

The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.

I am a product of the 1950s.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.'

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

I cannot get over the fact that I was born in 1944. I want to find out as much as I can about that year.

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

I never thought I wanted to write about the '50s, because I thought it was the most boring and bland decade to grow up in, and I never wanted to go back there.

I went back to Kolkata around two years back after a gap of 14 years, and though the city had changed, the people hadn't. Everybody is cultured and knowledgeable there. I have emotional memories of the place.

I'm old-fashioned.

I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.

If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.

He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

I'll take lying in your arms tonight over and above any love I've known. Memories may find me, but they'll always be behind me. I'll take today over yesterday, anyday.

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.