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  • Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world. You're just trying to make a love letter, a gift.

    "Mike Patton/Derek Cianfrance". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. March 22, 2013.