Derek Cianfrance Quotes
I think 'GoodFellas' is just a perfect film. From an efficiency of storytelling standpoint, from an entertainment standpoint, from a performance standpoint, from a use of music standpoint, from a cinematography and editing standpoint - to me, it's just a perfect movie.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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I think 'GoodFellas' is just a perfect film. From an efficiency of storytelling standpoint, from an entertainment standpoint, from a performance standpoint, from a use of music standpoint, from a cinematography and editing standpoint - to me, it's just a perfect movie.
