Todd Solondz

“I never think in terms of the reaction I'm going to get.”

“I'm interested in the things that are very difficult to talk about.”

“Happiness is so fleeting, and I'm not that interested in it.”

“The movies that I make are not for everyone.”

“I don't think I'm a misanthrope. I'm a realist.”

“I'm not interested in happy endings.”

“I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.”

“For me, comedy is the most serious and the most sublime art form.”

“I think of life as a comedy, not a tragedy. It's a comedy because it's so absurd.”

“I'm just a storyteller. I'm not a moralist.”

“I'm very much interested in the messy, contradictory, ambivalent, and dark places of the human soul.”

“I want the audience to feel what it's like to be the other.”

“I'm not trying to be shocking. I'm just trying to be honest.”

“I think that if you're a filmmaker, you're a director, you're a writer, you have to be bold.”

“I don't think in terms of genres. I think in terms of story and character.”