“At the time I made 'Safe,' I was really intrigued by the whole culture...” — Todd Haynes Quote

“At the time I made 'Safe,' I was really intrigued by the whole culture around AIDS, which was turning to people like Louise Hay and these other West Coast New Age thinkers.”

“With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.”

“I like to rehearse before blocking.”

“I think AIDS can be won. I think we can win this fight. It is winnable. But it means behavior change.”

“It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.”

“Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.”