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 like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.
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Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.
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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.
