Debra Granik

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell. ”

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. ”

The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so coming to a book is more ready-made. You at least have the story that someone sorted out. ”

It's almost like Time's Up allowed some really good old-school players to stand up and say, 'We're actually just really normal companies that want to facilitate culture-making. Some of us are even in it for the slow returns.' ”

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? ”

You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know. ”

The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless! ”

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. ”

The challenge for me is to make sure I've done my work. To make sure not every scene is quiet, that other scenes rise up, that there's different tension. ”

You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work. ”