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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.
- Todd Solondz
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One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
- Todd Solondz
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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.
- Todd Solondz
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#Me
#People
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#Understanding
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.
- Todd Solondz
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#Health
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Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
- Todd Solondz
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A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.
- Todd Solondz
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When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
- Todd Solondz
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#Sometimes
I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this.
- Todd Solondz
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It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.
- Todd Solondz
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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.
- Todd Solondz
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#Fate
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Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.
- Todd Solondz
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#Look
#People
#Right People
#Right
And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.
- Todd Solondz
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#Hat
#Hate
As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.
- Todd Solondz
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#Escape
#Lose
#Matter
#Sex
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
- Todd Solondz
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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.
- Todd Solondz
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#Way
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.
- Todd Solondz
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#Life
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