Debra Granik Quotes

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.

Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this way.

I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.

Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.

I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make something big and loud and dumb, it's pretty easy. It's very hard to go down there and make a film like 'Sideways,' which I thought was a great film. They don't want to make films like that anymore, even though that film was very successful.

Big feature films are another world.

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.