Best quotes by Todd Haynes on Love

Checkout quotes by Todd Haynes on Love

• ‟ We yearn for the desire to triumph, and it almost never does in the greatest love stories because we're left yearning for it more in the end, and we wish the world were different as a result. I do love that.

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• ‟ I love stories of love cropping up unexpectedly in life almost as a problem, as something you don't ask for. Something that messes everything up and makes you rethink everything.

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• ‟ I felt 'Brokeback Mountain' re-imbued the love story with an authentic and unquestionable series of obstacles that these men faced. I think that's certainly true for 'Carol' as well.

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• ‟ I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

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• ‟ I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

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• ‟ Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can't be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively.

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• ‟ The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.

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