I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
All filmmakers want the option to make another film, to have it not always be such an uphill battle - for it… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
It can't change anything immediately, but films can absolutely be catalysts for conversation. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get ensnared by an idea, and it's what I call 'the sticky burr': You go hiking, and a burr sticks… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
American film isn't just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren't the only… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film,… — 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
There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make… — 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
I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Action films don't speak to me, because that's not my skill set. I also have a lot of stipulations about stories I… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
The process of starting up a new film is one of looking through a lot of material and trying to find something… — 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
