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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There was a time in my early 20s when I would leave a movie theater and just feel so alone and lonely afterwards. I just felt like my life was nothing like those characters up on the screen, so perfect all the time. Why didn’t I talk like that? Why don’t I look like that? Derek Cianfrance Read Quote
I shot ‘Blue Valentine’ on 16mm for the past, and for the present on the Red Camera. I feel that both formats are valid. The stories should dictate the format we shoot on. Filmmakers should have a choice. Derek Cianfrance Read Quote
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 Read Quote
