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Debra Granik
Debra Granik
American Director
Born: Feb 6, 1963
Always Life Me People Time You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach. Debra Granik
Awareness Other Other Countries Approach Countries Cultural Versus Dominating Cooperative Need
Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence. Debra Granik
Medicine Humour Existence End-All Human Human Existence
I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now. Debra Granik
Try Backwards Looking Think Way Ways Fables Some Through Wired Tales Look Understand Always Balm Going Stories Either Forwards Now Hardest Needed
Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues. Debra Granik
Positive Strength Survival People Some People Kind Prone Some Small Schemes Attracted Because Am Maybe Blues
Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film, I get to have a discussion with viewers... and people who enjoy reading films - I enjoy reading other peoples' films, and what discussions can come of that. Debra Granik
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Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell. Debra Granik
Time Try Tell Boring Cheesy Females Up Roles Stories Lesser
I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States. Debra Granik
People Living Films States About Like Make How Survive United United States
In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation. Debra Granik
You Complicated Sometimes Say Responsible More Feel Documentary Greater Dealing Very Burdened Want Fiction Themes
I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor or an actress and create something so bamboozling and monumental and fathomless in terms of publicity hits. Debra Granik
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Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It's a long process. Debra Granik
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I love to champion some of the hardworking actors where, it's been said to me, they don't bring money. But to me, they bring everything. They bring their wonderful selves. Debra Granik
Love Me Champion Wonderful Money Everything Some Said Been Selves Where Actor Bring Hardworking
I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me. Debra Granik
Me East East Coast Exotic Forest Very Northwest Pacific Land Coast Therefore
Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons. Debra Granik
Book Made Every Films Host Get Short Reasons Whole Filmmaker
Sometimes you get ensnared by an idea, and it's what I call 'the sticky burr': You go hiking, and a burr sticks to you, and that's the film you're going to make. Debra Granik
You Sometimes Idea Hiking Make Call Sticks Sticky Go Get Going Film
American film isn't just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren't the only stories in this vast nation. That's my mandate. Debra Granik
People Nation Those Financially Only Vast Fame American Mandate Just Stories American Film Fortunate Who Film Lives
Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot. Debra Granik
Time Spending Someone Emerging Know Learn Lot Done Whole Each Actor Each Time
We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us on. But because films cost a lot of money to make and a huge amount of effort to get the people to rally, you have to really like it; you can't just semi-like it. Getting to 'really like' is the part that takes the minute. Debra Granik
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Sometimes I struggle with being American. Debra Granik
Struggle Sometimes American Being
It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision. Debra Granik
Pleasure Prominent See Like Comedians Female Been Impressions Precision Which Kate Flourish
I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing. Debra Granik
Extremely Come Call Suburb Land Nowhere
You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work. Debra Granik
Work You Become Unknowns Names Make Known Because Without Get Movies
For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust. Debra Granik
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History has shown that there needs to be some agora, or public spaces, and I think that we already live a lot of our life on a laptop, or even smaller devices that we hold in our hands. Debra Granik
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I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally. Debra Granik
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It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen? Debra Granik
You Mind Thinking Kind About Potential Read Does How Test Screen Your Novel Play
Make your film for the least amount you can. Debra Granik
You Make Least Your Film Amount
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