Debra Granik

I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor…

— Debra Granik

I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system - on the programming and making side, and on…

— 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 -…

— 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…

— Debra Granik

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

— 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…

— Debra Granik

My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking…

— 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…

— 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

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

It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny…

— Debra Granik

I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.

— Debra Granik

You have so much more time to observe and learn with a documentary because of the time between the shoots. You get…

— Debra Granik

People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while.

— Debra Granik

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

Social realism takes research.

— Debra Granik

You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.

— Debra Granik

Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show…

— Debra Granik

The questions that loom can be intimidating. 'What kind of moves is she gonna make? What is she gonna do?' There is…

— Debra Granik

No one has a green light when they start a documentary - not ever.

— Debra Granik

The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so…

— Debra Granik

I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.

— Debra Granik