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 don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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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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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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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life.
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I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
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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.
