salikawood:

_{“I wanted the past of Blue Valentine to be a movie about opportunities, where the characters had an unlimited amount of choices. They could become anything. They find each other, and they decide to become one. Flash forward six years: they have less opportunity. They can’t become as many things anymore.} 

_{I think I wanted past of Blue Valentine to make you feel like a fish in the ocean, and you could go anywhere. The present is these two characters as fish in a bucket and desperately trying to get back in the ocean again.”}

_{Derek Cianfrance}