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I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States.

~Debra Granik

Topics: About Films How Like Living Make People States Survive United United States

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You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.

~Debra Granik

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In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Beliefs Documentary Going Mostly People Perfect Say Things

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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.

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I don't want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are allowed to more carefully select and curate what it is you're going to explore.

~Debra Granik

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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

Topics: Actor Been Bring Champion Everything Hardworking Love Me Money Said Selves Some Where Wonderful I Love

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I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.

~Debra Granik

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I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.

~Debra Granik

Topics: About Could Films Find Happen Hard Make My Own Own Region

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 6th, 1963

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