"Velvet Goldmine is a valentine to the sounds and images that erupted in and around London in the early 1970's: Brian Ferry, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed - and the extraordinary inversions they imposed on our notions of the performance, sexuality and idenity. Glam rock was the product of the last truly progressive decade we've seen in the West - a climate of great possibility and openness - that resulted in important social movements, amazing cinema, and some fantastic music. And because glam rock would challenge with style, and wit, any leaning toward 'the natural' in society, drawing heavily as it did from underground gay culture, the film commemorates Oscar Wilde as the original glam rocker, the one who knew to speak the truth only through the most exquisite of lies."
~Todd Haynes, Velvet Goldmine Writer/Director