I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered. — 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
I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while. — 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
It's risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
My first camera job was filming workplace safety videos, which involved months of watching and videotaping people doing their jobs. I was… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
My ego is one thing. Of course I want people to like what I do. Of course. There's no doubt. You wouldn't… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own… — 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
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
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
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
My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient… — 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
I worry an awful lot about people and how they're faring. When I worry about people, whether their job is squashing their… — 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
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
