'Winter's Bone' really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you've got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment. — 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
