Derek Cianfrance Quotes

I think the range of my life shows in my work.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

The Richard Ashcroft of 1992 would have struggled to imagine the path my life has taken - he would be amazed at the changes in my song writing.

That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

What happened in my life made me a better artist.

I always find another version of myself in each of my films.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.