Derek Cianfrance Quotes
I don't have a life, really. I take my kids to school, and I go home, and I write. Then I go pick my kids up, make them dinner, put them to bed, and write some more.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
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I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect.
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To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.
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The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness.
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I don't have a life, really. I take my kids to school, and I go home, and I write. Then I go pick my kids up, make them dinner, put them to bed, and write some more.
