Derek Cianfrance Quotes
There's something so great when you're watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody more, because it's like a real relationship.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!
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It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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There's something so great when you're watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody more, because it's like a real relationship.
