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Right now, I think I have time to be three things, in no particular order: a father, a husband, and a filmmaker. That's why I don't go out - I have no space for it. I feel like one of those main things would suffer.

~Derek Cianfrance

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I've always thought that guns are a cowardly tool in the hands of men and women trying to solve problems with each other. And cowardly in the hands of filmmakers. It's taken so lightly in films.

~Derek Cianfrance

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I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Anything Box Collect Collected Die Family Full Get Goes Grew Guess Just Memories Next People Really Sentimental Sick Stuff Then Things Try Up Would

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I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. So again, it's like sculpture. You just start taking away, you add a nose here, you cut off, like, the side of the cheek over here in the crease, and you have a face. But it really reveals to you what it means to be over time, and if you have enough time.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Add Again Away Cheek Cut Editing Enough Enough Time Face Feel Here Job Just Like Means Movie Nose Off Over Really Reveals Sculpture Side Start Taking Tell Time You I Feel I Feel Like

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I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: Afternoon Cinematic Commercials Deemed Football Football Game Game Hardly Having Kids Know Much Off Them Thing Too Too Much Turn Tv Violence Watch Without

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One of the bad things about being a filmmaker, about being me, is I can hardly read a book anymore because every time I read something, I have a poaching mentality, like, 'Oh, can this be a movie?'

~Derek Cianfrance

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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

Topics: Adaptation Beautifully Best Book Like Me Mountain Movie Pages Short Short Story Story Think Which I Think

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Seeing 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I'd ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me.

~Derek Cianfrance

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When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments.' But 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' is essentially a documentary about Jesus. It made me aware of how real life and personal experience can create more breathtaking, sensitive cinema than more sophisticated techniques.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: About According Aware Bible Breathtaking Cinema Commandments Create Documentary Epics Essentially Experience Gospel How Imagine Jesus Life Like Made Matthew Me More Movies People Personal Personal Experience Real Real Life Sensitive Sophisticated Sweeping Techniques Ten Ten Commandments Than Think

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If you make a movie that's close to your heart, it will be close to other people's.

~Derek Cianfrance

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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