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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

Topics: Devices Even Hands History Hold Laptop Life Live Lot Needs Our Public Shown Smaller Some Spaces Think I Think

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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

Topics: Always Character Concern Considerably Me One Thing Out Personally Role See Seeing Story Taken Then Thing Think You I Think

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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

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Make your film for the least amount you can.

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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

Topics: Able Back Big Big Part Bone Equation Guaranteed Had Little Loan Making Nobody Owe Part Pay Were Winter

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Social realism takes research.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Realism Research Social Takes

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What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?

~Debra Granik

Topics: After Change Different Different Way Does Had History Late Life Living Mean Really Reckless Someone Something Sometimes Structured Then Very Want Way Who You Your Yourself

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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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There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her.

~Debra Granik

Topics: About Becomes Could Destroy Eventually Helps Her Journalism Just Lot Mom Person Poverty Real Real Person See Sometimes Unsustainable Wages Who Working

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 6th, 1963

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