I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving. — 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
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
The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
History has shown that there needs to be some agora, or public spaces, and I think that we already live a lot… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness.… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything.… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
You have so much more time to observe and learn with a documentary because of the time between the shoots. You get… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
We all have to acknowledge the life and the path we were born into. And the things that define us, they're often… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in… — 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
