Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other… — 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
