Derek Cianfrance

I'm so sick of seeing guns in movies, and all this violence; and if there was going to be violence in Pines,…

— Derek Cianfrance

Yeah as the director I consider myself to be the coach, and my actors are my players. So I have to show…

— Derek Cianfrance

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts…

— Derek Cianfrance

From making documentaries all these years, it doesn't feel right to lead someone. In narratives, I'm always trying to shoot as though…

— Derek Cianfrance

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

— Derek Cianfrance

I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things and then they'd get sick and people die…

— Derek Cianfrance

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can…

— Derek Cianfrance

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

— Derek Cianfrance

I love crosscut parallel storytelling, like we did in Blue Valentine. I love how Alejandro González Iñárritu has done it, and Quentin…

— Derek Cianfrance

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But!…

— Derek Cianfrance

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…

— Derek Cianfrance

Sidney Lumet is one of my favorite filmmakers. I feel like his approach to filmmaking was always so human. He was always…

— Derek Cianfrance

Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have…

— Derek Cianfrance

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for…

— Derek Cianfrance

I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. It's like sculpture. You just…

— Derek Cianfrance

I've had to cut my mom out of a movie before - it's ruthless, editing. But it's also so necessary; because once…

— Derek Cianfrance

A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

— Derek Cianfrance

I want to get out of the way of the actors. I want to get out of their eye lines. I want…

— Derek Cianfrance

So I don't think being an artist you can ever satisfy - the moment you do get satisfied is the moment you're…

— Derek Cianfrance