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" 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. "

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" I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously. "

Debra Granik

" American film isn't just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren't the only stories in this vast nation. That's my mandate. "

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

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" Make your film for the least amount you can. "

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" 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. "

Debra Granik

" The questions that loom can be intimidating. 'What kind of moves is she gonna make? What is she gonna do?' There is this pressure that you're supposed to keep impressing. "

Debra Granik

" Social realism takes research. "

Debra Granik

" 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. "

Debra Granik

" #TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different. "

Debra Granik

" I get very caught up in the day-to-day and immersed in the scenes as they unfold. It's harder for me, as I'm filming, to see the larger story. "

Debra Granik

" What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell. "

Debra Granik

" A big part of the equation for 'Winter's Bone' was making it for so little that we owe nobody. We had a guaranteed loan and were able to pay it back. "

Debra Granik

" 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

" In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives. "

Debra Granik

" Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues. "

Debra Granik

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

Debra Granik

" I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally. "

Debra Granik

" We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach. "

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" I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by material wealth - they have nothing to do with that. "

Debra Granik

" Film is a team thing. There is no auteur. "

Debra Granik

" The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you. "

Debra Granik

" Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film, I get to have a discussion with viewers... and people who enjoy reading films - I enjoy reading other peoples' films, and what discussions can come of that. "

Debra Granik

" Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources. "

Debra Granik

" In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect. "

Debra Granik

" You have so much more time to observe and learn with a documentary because of the time between the shoots. You get a much deeper understanding of day-to-day life and its themes. It's also much more of a mess after three years; you have to comb it out carefully and see what fits together and makes sense. "

Debra Granik

" It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen? "

Debra Granik

" I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical. "

Debra Granik

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

Debra Granik

" 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. "

Debra Granik