Derek Cianfrance Quotes

There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

My parents got divorced when I was really young.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister.

I'm not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

My parents were divorced when I was really young.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

I had a difficult childhood. I had lots of anxiety and questions. I found the world scary and intimidating.

As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

My mum and dad split up when I was five years old, and that was quite upsetting. But ever since then, I've been very hard.

Dragged out of your bed at the age of seven, my mother screaming, six kids under the age of 12. I'm not equating my experience with the people who lived in Northern Ireland. But my dad was always out and about late at night, and I could not go to sleep until I knew he was in.

Growing up, I was afraid of the dark.