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TODD SOLONDZ - Director & Screenwriter
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'I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in the suburbs. At New York Uni-
versity Film School, I made several short films, one of which, 'Schatt's Last Shot',
was particularly popular. A screening was set up in Los Angeles, and the next day
I was seated in the office of the (then) president of 20th Century Fox, Scott Rudin.
A three-picture writing deal with Fox was quickly followed by an additional three-
picture deal with Columbia. Unfortunately, the only thing I really liked about these deals was telling everyone I had them. |
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I had a script I then took to Propaganda Pictures, who then got Polygram to finance it as my first
feature. This was not a happy experience. Released by the Samuel Goldwyn Company, the
movie, 'Fear Anxiety and Depression', (which I would rather have had titled 'The Young and the
Hopeless') was 'a disappointment'.
Afterwards I left 'the business' (or it left me) and, lacking any marketable skill became an ESL
(English as second language) teacher to newly arrived Russian immigrants. Pretending I had
never gotten involved in film in the first place, I lived happily for several years. But then one day,
when a lawyer friend of mine said she was able to raise financing for a low-budget independent
feature, I felt it was time to have second thoughts. I had written the screenplay for WELCOME
TO THE DOLLHOUSE years before, when I was still 'active', in part to redeem myself from the
horror of my first feature experience, and it was a script I had always been fond of.
Evidently, I decided to reactivate.'
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2004 |
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PALINDROMES |
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2001 |
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STORYTELLING |
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1998 |
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HAPPINESS |
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1995 |
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WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE |
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1989 |
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FEAR, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION |
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1989 |
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SCHATT'S LAST SHOT (Short) |
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>> director's note |
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