Debra Granik Quotes

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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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • School
  • Character
  • Period

• Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Different
  • Circumstances

• It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Matter
  • Repetition

• I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Party
  • Day
  • Years

• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Spiritual
  • Positive
  • Driven

• I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Different
  • Travel

• Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Men
  • Job
  • Modeling

• I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • School
  • Hair
  • Anger

• 'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.

  

  Mal Peet
  • American
  • Deep
  • Thought

• It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Hope
  • Age

• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
  • Intelligence

• Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Taken

• I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Home
  • Discipline

• Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Politics
  • Morality
  • Where

• Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Football

• When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.

  

  Karen Black
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Playing

• We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

  

  Alan Paton
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Wish

• Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Long
  • Art
  • Boxing

• 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
  • Long
  • Path
  • Realist