Todd Solondz Quotes


With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement. - Todd Solondz


When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh. - Todd Solondz


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


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. - Todd Solondz


What I tried to do, as best I could, was keep a kind of balancing act in motion... I have my prejudices and politics and so-forth, but if I was going to err, I wanted to err in favor of the Christian conservatives, since it's not the world that I come from. Keeping this balancing act was essential for me, since the point is that the film is not trying to convert one... but rather for the audience to have to examine some of their own preconceptions about whichever position one is taking. - Todd Solondz


Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case. - Todd Solondz


We are so defined by our prejudices and our preconceptions... that it's sometimes shocking to realise to what extent we are so conditioned. - Todd Solondz


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


This driving need is what is so defining of her and is, in a sense, what makes her a palindrome... Loosely, metaphorically speaking, a palindrome describes that part of ourselves that is immutable and that resists, so that for all the metamorphoses, physical and otherwise, that we see over the course of the film, the character remains a constant. - Todd Solondz


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. - Todd Solondz


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