Debra Granik

I'm a trudger.

— Debra Granik

Sometimes I struggle with being American.

— Debra Granik

Film is a team thing. There is no auteur.

— Debra Granik

A role is never just a ready-made thing.

— Debra Granik

Make your film for the least amount you can.

— Debra Granik

Social realism takes research.

— Debra Granik

We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach.

— Debra Granik

It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.

— Debra Granik

I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States.

— Debra Granik

There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing.

— Debra Granik

I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.

— Debra Granik

What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell.

— Debra Granik

I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.

— Debra Granik

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

— Debra Granik

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're…

— Debra Granik

We just started filming 'Stray Dog' really close to the finishing of 'Winter's Bone,' down in Southern Missouri.

— Debra Granik

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red…

— Debra Granik

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

All filmmakers want the option to make another film, to have it not always be such an uphill battle - for it…

— Debra Granik

For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered.

— Debra Granik

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

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

— Debra Granik

My first camera job was filming workplace safety videos, which involved months of watching and videotaping people doing their jobs. I was…

— Debra Granik

There's all these costs of war, and they're huge and long-lasting. It's not just the numbers CNN broadcasts. And we never want…

— 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

Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything.…

— Debra Granik

It's almost like Time's Up allowed some really good old-school players to stand up and say, 'We're actually just really normal companies…

— Debra Granik

We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us…

— Debra Granik

I think when you practice photography or observation, you're on high alert. You polish up your antenna and stick up your head,…

— 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

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

— Debra Granik

In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting.

— Debra Granik

I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.

— Debra Granik

Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

— Debra Granik

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

— Debra Granik

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

— Debra Granik

Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.

— Debra Granik

It can't change anything immediately, but films can absolutely be catalysts for conversation.

— Debra Granik

I need and want to see capable women. I don't like to see them weep all the time.

— Debra Granik

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

— Debra Granik