I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. It's like sculpture. You just start taking away, you add a nose here, you cut off like the side of the cheek over… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
So I don't think being an artist you can ever satisfy - the moment you do get satisfied is the moment you're done, really. I'm actually starting to bug out now, because it's not enough. I get joy and pleasure… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
I'm so sick of seeing guns in movies, and all this violence; and if there was going to be violence in Pines, I wanted… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
Yeah as the director I consider myself to be the coach, and my actors are my players. So I have to show them how… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
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… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness. — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
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… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better. — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
I love crosscut parallel storytelling, like we did in Blue Valentine. I love how Alejandro González Iñárritu has done it, and Quentin Tarantino, and… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
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… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
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… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
Sidney Lumet is one of my favorite filmmakers. I feel like his approach to filmmaking was always so human. He was always making movies… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
