Debra Granik Quotes
Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.
Quotes to Explore
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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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.'
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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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.
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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.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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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.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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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.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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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.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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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.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with a little sweat. I'm always moving, so it's normal for me, and it actually makes my curly hair better because it gives it a bit more texture and volume.
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My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.
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People always say you should live your life as if it were your last day. I think you should live your life as though it will go on for ever; that every day is so good that you don't want it to end.
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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.
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I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
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Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.
