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There's something so great when you're watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody more, because it's like a real relationship.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Because Get Great Know Like More Movie Real Real Relationship Relationship Slowly Somebody Something Watching You

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When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Adulthood Confront Divorce Entering Felt Get Had Just Kid Like Me Needed Nightmares Nuclear Nuclear War Other Parents Relationships Scared Split Things Those Trying Twenty Two Up War Would Young

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I feel like the job of an artist is to confront their own darkness and their own demons and fears. And I want to make movies that feel human up on the screen. I don't really relate to dudes wearing spandex and capes.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Artist Confront Darkness Demons Dudes Fears Feel Human Job Like Make Movies Own Really Relate Screen Up Want Wearing I Feel I Feel Like

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Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Catharsis Confront Feel Get Like Look Pain Rapture Things Through World I Feel I Feel Like

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After 'Place Beyond the Pines,' honestly, I was sick of myself. Sick of my own ideas. I wanted to do an adaptation, but everything I'd been reading, I just didn't understand it.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Adaptation After Been Beyond Everything Honestly Ideas Just My Own Myself Own Place Reading Sick Understand Wanted

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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

Topics: Actor Ask Fail Me Surprise Them Things Two

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There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: About Always Because Beings Certainly Character Dad Hollywood Human Human Beings Life Likable Love Most My Life Never People Sympathetic Thing Time Understood Wife I Love

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I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there's reverberations, consequences. That's what I'm interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Choice Choices Consequences Echo Interested Love Make Passion People Ripple Way Work You I Love

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When I cast great actors, I try to make extraordinary people ordinary, dealing with these extremely small intimate details of interpersonal relationships against an epic backdrop.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Actor Against Backdrop Cast Dealing Details Epic Extraordinary Extraordinary People Extremely Great Interpersonal Intimate Make Ordinary Ordinary People People Relationships Small Try

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I think 'GoodFellas' is just a perfect film. From an efficiency of storytelling standpoint, from an entertainment standpoint, from a performance standpoint, from a use of music standpoint, from a cinematography and editing standpoint - to me, it's just a perfect movie.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Cinematography Editing Efficiency Entertainment Film Just Me Movie Music Perfect Performance Standpoint Storytelling Think Use I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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