I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it’s the way we’re wired. We have always needed to distill what we’re going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now. Debra Granik Read Quote
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 pious or simply dreary lives. Debra Granik Read Quote
I’m from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me. Debra Granik Read Quote
Winter’s Bone’ really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you’ve got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment. Debra Granik Read Quote
We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach. Debra Granik Read Quote
Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there’s something that – you know, they don’t come for no reason. It’s just that it takes time to explore complexity. Debra Granik Read Quote
I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system – on the programming and making side, and on the curating side – which is that we now have a higher threshold for the salacious. We have a higher threshold, unprecedented, for fast, cheap, and out of control. Debra Granik Read Quote
Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition. Debra Granik Read Quote
There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving. Debra Granik Read Quote
You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, ‘Hey time’s up; we need to vote. We live in this country.’ People had to call out ‘time’s up’ on enslaving people, you know. Debra Granik Read Quote
