Debra Granik Quotes

Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Drunk
  • Before
  • Got

• People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Up
  • Me
  • Passion

• Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

  

  FKA twigs
  • World
  • Real
  • Racism

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Goodness

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• If the constitution goes, I go.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Constitution
  • Go
  • Goes

• The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Movie
  • Eyes
  • Down

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Strange

• Financial assistance from Peripheral Development Fund has been provided by Nalco to many educational institutions, trusts, etc, over the years. Financial assistance has not been provided to any private university.

  

  Dinsha Patel
  • Financial

• When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Eyes
  • Bird
  • Eager

• American officials sometimes dig into corporations because they are suspected to be witting or unwitting suppliers of technology to the North Koreans or the Iranians.

  

  David E. Sanger
  • American
  • Technology

• I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • World
  • Book
  • Marketing

• When me and my author friends who write about other difficult subject matter... when you hear from teens daily saying, 'Your book helped me or made me understand a friend better, what somebody else is going through,' you see the positive things.

  

  Jay Asher
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Friend

• Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Book