Todd Solondz Quotes

• Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

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  Self, Bridges, Hype

  "Sanity and Solitude: Cogent Ramblings of a Lone Aesthetic". Book by Bob Spencer, p. 81, 2012.

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• Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

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  Eye, Fate, Pride

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

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  Skills, Kind, Life Is

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• We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can we embrace all this? Because we all contain within ourselves equally the capacity for kindness, as much as for cruelty or evil. And the best of us are able to suppress those baser impulses, instincts. That's the war within.

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  Kindness, War, Mean

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

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  Real, Personas, Quieren

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

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  People, Humanity, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

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  Stories, Way, Kind

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way. It's where people go to recreate, to reinvent themselves. It's what California used to be. I think Florida is still a place to erase the past.

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  Pasado, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

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  Diversión, Carácter, Gente

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth. It's a projection of the ultimate innocence and purity. That's why it's hard to see a dog in its dogness. That's why, when some harm comes to a dog, it's much harder for an audience to deal with that, more so than dealing with harm that comes to a child or anything human.

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  Dream, Dog, Children

  "'Wiener-Dog': Director Todd Solondz Explains Why It Took a Few Years to Make This Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2016.

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• That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.

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  People, Honest, Response

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• Las obras de arte pueden ser un portal, una especie de replanteamiento y revisión del mundo tal y como lo vivimos.

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  World, Portal, Kind

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

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  Art, Mean, Impact

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

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  Ideas, Audience, Censored

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

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  Mean, Directors, Kind

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.

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  World, Littles, Way

  "'Wiener-Dog': Director Todd Solondz Explains Why It Took a Few Years to Make This Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2016.

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• Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

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  Doctors, Optimism, World

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• The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

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  Thinking, Skills, Different

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• Lo más insidioso de la MTV es que mercantiliza precisamente las cosas que los jóvenes consideran subversivas. En otras palabras, la propia subversión se ha convertido en una mercancía. Todo es una forma de engañar a los jóvenes para que crean que hay algo único en lo que hacen, pero todo esto es una maniobra completamente diseñada por las empresas.

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  Believe, Unique, Mtv

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• Every time you try to make another movie, you never know what will come of it. I can't say it ever gets easier, but it is in it's own way gratifying. I think that because no one movie that you make ever quite satisfies you, you're always feeling, "Next time I can get it right."

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  Pensar, Sentir, Intentar

  "Director Todd Solondz Interview DARK HORSE". Interview with Phil Brown, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I admit there’s an element of brutality in all my work - it’s part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I’m trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people’s pain and humiliation.

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  Pain, People, Trying

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• En parte tiene que ver con eso de que te aborden en público. Tengo un aspecto inconfundible, en parte por las gafas que llevo, y la gente parece acordarse de mí una vez que me ha visto.

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  Glasses, People, Looks

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

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  Important, Want, Anonymity

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

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  Nice, Funny Things, Stranger

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

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  Writing, Stories, Want

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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