Derek Cianfrance Quotes
I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
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I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
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Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
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I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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I do love being amongst creative people and facilitating that and being inspired by people. I get very bored with just competence and require inspiration all around me.
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I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.
