Debra Granik Quotes
You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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There is no one true church.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
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'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist.
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The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
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My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.
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You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
