More - Todd Solondz Quotes

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

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target anyone in particular. I only hope that some people will find the work entertaining and come to my films with an open mind.

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People came up to me afterwards and, it didn't matter whether it was a beautiful model or a heavy-set construction worker, they'd all think the same thing: they'd say, 'That was me, I was Dawn Wiener',

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It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,

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 Budget Money

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.

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I just think hearing my voice would be unpleasant, ... When you write a book, there's the book and that's it. You don't need pages of commentary or the 300 pages you deleted. I think ultimately the movie has to speak for itself.

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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.

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 Audience Prejudices

Palindromes.

Todd Solondz