Kindness Anthropology Quotes by Debra Granik

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

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

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

In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.

— Debra Granik

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

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction…

— Debra Granik

#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

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

It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.

— Debra Granik

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

There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing.

— Debra Granik

I'm always searching to learn more about our large and diverse country.

— Debra Granik