Derek Cianfrance Quotes

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

I consider myself a selfie specialist.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

I totally love being on camera.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.

Andy was an offbeat personality, shy and insecure. The whole reason for taking a camera with him wherever he went was because he was so shy. He'd break the ice by taking pictures.

I'm always changing my style.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

It’s funny how one summer can change everything.

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.

If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.

One choice can transform you!

You become that to which you are most exposed.

[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.