Derek Cianfrance Quotes

I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

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• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Religion
  • Beauty

• Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Parents

• And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Important
  • Become
  • Invention

• Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Life
  • Better
  • Everyday

• There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Chance
  • First
  • Second Chance

• Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Religious
  • Marriage
  • Spiritual

• I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Pretty
  • Look
  • Young

• I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Body
  • Fat
  • Goat

• But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • People
  • Different
  • Responsibility

• You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Know
  • Everyone
  • Mythology

• I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Always
  • More
  • Vietnam

• I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Wear
  • Wigs

• Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Music
  • Think
  • Noises

• Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
  • Balance
  • End

• You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • You
  • Always
  • Performance

• We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.

  

  Jack Reed
  • World
  • War
  • Free

• There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Good
  • Year
  • Crime

• There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

  

  Nelson DeMille
  • Long
  • English

• Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Made
  • Differences
  • Events

• If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

  

  Joan Collins
  • People
  • Greed

• American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • American
  • Car
  • Hurt

• Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.

  

  Gary Lachman Blondie
  • World
  • Theory
  • T-shirt

• I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

  

  Derek Cianfrance