Documentary Quote by Debra Granik Download Open image “No one has a green light when they start a documentary - not ever.” — Debra Granik ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Documentary Ever Green Green light Light Start
Life is not full of green lights. The red lights help bring things into perspective. — Jaime Garcia Sr Copy Share Image
People complain about Hollywood movies being similar. That goes right down to the fundamental green light process, because the process involves having to compare… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
While the documentary community is way ahead of Hollywood, it is still nowhere near where it needs to be. Filmmakers of color rarely get… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
There's a lack of diversity amongst executives in the position of greenlighting a film who feel that their stories are being told. If there's… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture. — Peter Bart Copy Share Image
There is no point in doing a film that will never see the light of the day. — Zayed Khan Copy Share Image
I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual… — Joe Berlinger 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
When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made a small… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we… — Method Man Copy Share Image
It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary. — Jeri Ryan Copy Share Image
'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team. — Angelina Maccarone Copy Share Image
Documentary films have always been my passion, I have done documentaries. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I watched a documentary called 'Plastic Oceans' on Netflix, and it was an eye-opener for me. — Kevin Anderson Copy Share Image
