The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
When I read Daniel Woodrell's novel 'Winter's Bone,' I was drawn to the characters, the setting, and the sound of the dialog. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor or an… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system - on the programming and making side, and on the curating… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
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… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
#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… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I'm always searching to learn more about our large and diverse country. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
