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. Debra Granik Read Quote
#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 Read Quote
Emerging actors know there’s a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who’s done a lot. Debra Granik Read Quote
The process of starting up a new film is one of looking through a lot of material and trying to find something you really like. And it does sometimes take a minute. Debra Granik Read Quote
We’re always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us on. But because films cost a lot of money to make and a huge amount of effort to get the people to rally, you have to really like it; you can’t just semi-like it. Getting to ‘really like’ is the part that takes the minute. Debra Granik Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece of storytelling that also happened to explode the myth of American affluence. Debra Granik Read Quote
