100 Quotes by Debra Granik

I don't want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are allowed to more carefully select and curate what it is you're going to explore.

Our necks are getting injured from looking down, and the movie screen gives you opportunity to look up, you know? It gives you an opportunity to possibly have a discussion with someone afterwards.

Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues.

Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film, I get to have a discussion with viewers... and people who enjoy reading films - I enjoy reading other peoples' films, and what discussions can come of that.

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

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

You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.

In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation.