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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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The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless!

~Debra Granik

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When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing.

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Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Existence Human Human Existence Humour Medicine

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Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.

~Debra Granik

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In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Characters Depicted Difficulties Dreary Humour Lives Often People Pious Simply Working-Class

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There's all these costs of war, and they're huge and long-lasting. It's not just the numbers CNN broadcasts. And we never want to pay the VA bill; we never want to pay the bill to take care of these warriors after we applaud their sacrifice.

~Debra Granik

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I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient tradition of writing down notes, of saying, 'Hey people, hey people!'

~Debra Granik

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The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter way; I just didn't ever look in that direction.

~Debra Granik

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'Winter's Bone' really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you've got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment.

~Debra Granik

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 6th, 1963

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