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" I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor or an actress and create something so bamboozling and monumental and fathomless in terms of publicity hits. "

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" The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man. "

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" Our necks are getting injured from looking down, and the movie screen gives you opportunity to look up, you know? It gives you an opportunity to possibly have a discussion with someone afterwards. "

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" I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen. "

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" My ego is one thing. Of course I want people to like what I do. Of course. There's no doubt. You wouldn't do it. But I think what people don't fully know is how responsible you feel for so many entities. So many hardworking people who've collaborated. "

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" I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now. "

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" My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it. "

Debra Granik

" I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while. "

Debra Granik

" I would fail if I had to work with stars. And I also can't afford to work that way. I can't afford to have special circumstances for rarified individuals. So, I work with actors who have given me a sign that they're willing to work in these more humble circumstances, in real-life locations. "

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" There are so many American experiences that we can't know about unless we venture out to create a dialogue, to observe, ask questions, and stay there for a while. "

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" I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial. "

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" Social realism takes research. "

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" People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while. "

Debra Granik

" 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. "

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" In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation. "

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" Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence. "

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" There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving. "

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" I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that matter most to me. It's when someone comes and says, 'I will finance your movie if you cast so and so.' "

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" It can't change anything immediately, but films can absolutely be catalysts for conversation. "

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" My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes and many hours of video footage. "

Debra Granik

" The social-media discourse is very different from what it might be on the ground. It's easy to bloviate without having to look anyone in the eye and then having those sentiments swell and amplify and go viral. "

Debra Granik

" No one has a green light when they start a documentary - not ever. "

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" There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her. "

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" In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting. "

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" I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me. "

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" Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It's a long process. "

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" I need and want to see capable women. I don't like to see them weep all the time. "

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