Derek Cianfrance Quotes

I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.

Derek Cianfrance

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• Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

  

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• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

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• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

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• Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.

  

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• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

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  • Men
  • Sea
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• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

  

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  • Period
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• Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

  

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  • Soul
  • Death
  • Body

• My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

  

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• Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!

  

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• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

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• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

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  • Life
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• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

  

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• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

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• Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

  

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  • God
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• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

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• Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

  

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• I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

  

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• There's very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.

  

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  • Up
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• I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

  

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• I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.

  

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  • Trying

• At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

  

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  • Movie
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• I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Mountain