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• At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

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  Reading, Writing, Creative

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• One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

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  Writing, Stories, Want

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I admit there’s an element of brutality in all my work - it’s part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I’m trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people’s pain and humiliation.

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  Pain, People, Trying

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.

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  World, Littles, Way

  "'Wiener-Dog': Director Todd Solondz Explains Why It Took a Few Years to Make This Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2016.

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• Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

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  Glasses, People, Looks

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

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  Sex, Matter, Gains

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• Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

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  People, Looks, Casting

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• Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

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  World, Portal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

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  Mirrors, Beginnings And Ends, Different

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• The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

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  Nice, Funny Things, Stranger

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

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  Directors, Actors

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

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  Ideas, People, Feelings

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• People cant help how they look.

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  People, Looks, Helping

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.

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  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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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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  Littles, Able, Kind

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• I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

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  Comedy, Said, Audience

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

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  Paper, Pens

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• But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

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  Important, Want, Anonymity

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

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  Hate, Dark, People

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.

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  Self, Ideas, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.

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  Writing, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.

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  Laughter, Character, Laughing

  "Q&A: Todd Solondz talks inspiration for new movie 'Dark Horse'". Interview with Daily Bruin, dailybruin.com. July 29, 2012.

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• I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

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  Thinking, Healthy

  "Director Todd Solondz Interview DARK HORSE". Interview with Phil Brown, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is of course you can see how I play with the characters, the storylines, and the way things play off each other. And the minus is that it makes you a little bit more self-conscious, that you're not able to enter the movie as it exists and lives and breathes, because you're so busy making references, connections that you're not able to release yourself from and take the film on your own terms.

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  Character, Thinking, Busy

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

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  Fun, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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