I used to fall hard when I was younger, and it occupies a lot of journals and redundant preoccupation and analysis. It is a state in which you are in an overheated fervor of production - of mental production - where you're analyzing everything that happened. And what they said! And how they looked! Did that touch mean something, or not? Everything is sort of endowed with meaning, but you're also hopelessly boring and out of the world.
Todd HaynesThe ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.
Todd HaynesI always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.
Todd HaynesFeminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own criticalโand creativeโthinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to be a man โ and how much my sexuality would perpetually challenge those meaningsโcould be found in arguments posed by feminists. What can I say? I identified.
Todd Haynes