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I was a member of the VHS generation. I used to study movies as a kid because I had a VCR and could record a movie on HBO and just watch it repeatedly.

~Derek Cianfrance

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We had all these smiley family pictures all over the walls of my house, but I always found those pictures to be odd because we weren't smiling all the time. I don't want to paint the picture of a total dysfunctional house, but there were a lot of arguments in that house. A lot of pain.

~Derek Cianfrance

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There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Also Anything Flip Give Movies Rule Side Try Want Which You I Want You

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There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films - control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Also Chaotic Control Films Giving Glorious Life Something Think Trying World I Think

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I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that's where you feel danger.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Absence Actor Audience Because Brave Courage Courageous Danger Fear Feel Go Love Me Places Presence Really Scare Them Where You I Love

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I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Actor Coach Cowardly Doing Myself Players Things Too Trying

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Lars Ulrich, he was my hero growing up. I wanted to be like him. I played the drums.

~Derek Cianfrance

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It's like you take these great actors and put them in an aquarium of life and just watch them swim. That's what makes editing tough because you get all these beautiful, unplanned moments.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Actor Beautiful Because Editing Get Great Just Life Like Makes Moments Put Swim Take Them Tough Watch You

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From making documentaries all these years, it doesn't feel right to lead someone. In narratives, I'm always trying to shoot as though it's really happening, and I trust my actors are going to make decisions that I'm going to be following. I want to follow them.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Actor Always Decisions Documentaries Feel Follow Following Going Happening Lead Make Making Narratives Really Right Shoot Someone Them Though Trust Trying Want Years

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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.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Bed Dinner Go Go Home Home Kids Life Make More Pick Put Really School Some Take Them Then Up Write I Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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