Derek Cianfrance Quotes
I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.
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Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.
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Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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What sustains us in any competition are the moments of interiority when the competition vanishes; what sustains us in any struggle are the moments when we forget the struggle.
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I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.
