Derek Cianfrance Quotes
I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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I know nothing about technology.
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We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.
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People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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I couldn't resist painting Orpheus and Charon on the River Styx. There was something strangely intriguing about seeing Orpheus playing his lyre as he is being shuttled across the river.
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Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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This has denied the regime access to well over $10 billion in oil revenue - a loss of at least $30 million a day.
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I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.
