American - Director | February 6, 1963 -
It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.
Debra Granik
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I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.
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You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
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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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History has shown that there needs to be some agora, or public spaces, and I think that we already live a lot of our life on a laptop, or even smaller devices that we hold in our hands.
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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.
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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?
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Make your film for the least amount you can.
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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.
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Social realism takes research.
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What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?
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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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