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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
A big part of the equation for 'Winter's Bone' was making it for so little that we owe nobody. We had a guaranteed loan and were able to pay it back. Debra Granik
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Social realism takes research. Debra Granik
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I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial. Debra Granik
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I would fail if I had to work with stars. And I also can't afford to work that way. I can't afford to have special circumstances for rarified individuals. So, I work with actors who have given me a sign that they're willing to work in these more humble circumstances, in real-life locations. Debra Granik
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I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously. Debra Granik
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My ego is one thing. Of course I want people to like what I do. Of course. There's no doubt. You wouldn't do it. But I think what people don't fully know is how responsible you feel for so many entities. So many hardworking people who've collaborated. Debra Granik
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We just started filming 'Stray Dog' really close to the finishing of 'Winter's Bone,' down in Southern Missouri. Debra Granik
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There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving. Debra Granik
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I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for Easy Street. Debra Granik
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The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you. Debra Granik
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For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered. Debra Granik
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The questions that loom can be intimidating. 'What kind of moves is she gonna make? What is she gonna do?' There is this pressure that you're supposed to keep impressing. Debra Granik
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I feel as though perhaps there's not a great match between the content I'm attracted to and the content that is considered attractive to some of the more major or more traditionally financed entities. Debra Granik
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It's almost like Time's Up allowed some really good old-school players to stand up and say, 'We're actually just really normal companies that want to facilitate culture-making. Some of us are even in it for the slow returns.' Debra Granik
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I'm a trudger. Debra Granik
I bring forward stories from the lives of everyday Americans: those whose path hasn't been set out on easy street or who haven't been given it all, those who are actually forging ahead because of their own personal resources, their moxie, their survival instincts. Debra Granik
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The challenge for me is to make sure I've done my work. To make sure not every scene is quiet, that other scenes rise up, that there's different tension. Debra Granik
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I get very caught up in the day-to-day and immersed in the scenes as they unfold. It's harder for me, as I'm filming, to see the larger story. Debra Granik
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It can't change anything immediately, but films can absolutely be catalysts for conversation. Debra Granik
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I'm always searching to learn more about our large and diverse country. Debra Granik
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There are so many American experiences that we can't know about unless we venture out to create a dialogue, to observe, ask questions, and stay there for a while. Debra Granik
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I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between. Debra Granik
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Action films don't speak to me, because that's not my skill set. I also have a lot of stipulations about stories I don't want to perpetuate, ones that bring me down or make me feel like life's not worth living. Debra Granik
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All filmmakers want the option to make another film, to have it not always be such an uphill battle - for it to be our life, our working life. Debra Granik
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I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life. Debra Granik
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The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man. Debra Granik
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