Debra Granik Quotes
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.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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People selling content internationally need to be highly focused on selling the right product to the right buyer. If things don't succeed on a particular network, they're not going to stay on very long.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.
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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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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.
