Debra Granik Quotes
All filmmakers want the option to make another film, to have it not always be such an uphill battle - for it to be our life, our working life.
Quotes to Explore
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
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People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.
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All filmmakers want the option to make another film, to have it not always be such an uphill battle - for it to be our life, our working life.
