Derek Cianfrance Quotes

I shot 'Blue Valentine' on 16mm for the past, and for the present on the Red Camera. I feel that both formats are valid. The stories should dictate the format we shoot on. Filmmakers should have a choice.

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• The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Leftwing

• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Business
  • Books
  • Suppressing

• When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Up
  • Parents

• It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Value
  • Logic
  • Evidence

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Travel
  • Cold
  • Really

• I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Want

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Party
  • Violence
  • Deep

• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Bad
  • Light
  • Change

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Help
  • Focus

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Proud
  • Only
  • Did

• I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• A lot of 'Star Wars' fans who are specifically Asian never had a character they could dress up like, or they would, and people would always call them 'Asian Rey' or 'Asian fill-in-the-blank.'

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Life
  • Past
  • Responsibility

• Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Poetry

• There are many role models I've been around, and kind of the biggest one - there's a show called 'Push Girls,' with all women in wheelchairs, and they're all really good friends of mine. And one, Angela Rockwood, is still modeling, in a wheelchair. After a car accident.

  

  Jamie Brewer
  • Good
  • Women
  • Friends

• I shot 'Blue Valentine' on 16mm for the past, and for the present on the Red Camera. I feel that both formats are valid. The stories should dictate the format we shoot on. Filmmakers should have a choice.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
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  • Present
  • Red