Debra Granik Quotes

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

I love connected culture.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'I wish Facebook wasn't around,' because, you know, it is what it is.

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

Twitter, Instagram - I don't do it at all.

Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.

I think the Internet is more layered and complex than just hating it or liking it. I find it to be more purposeful to talk about the way that it's conducive for relationships and making connections.

I think in this world of social media, we will be lost if we don't have an online account.

We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.

No, I don't actually look at Twitter.

Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.

Perhaps the people of Twitter are more amenable to your babbling than your immediate family, but that doesn't necessarily make digital communication a beneficial distraction when we have an immediate social environment.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn't stay in touch with the fan base that followed you during the Olympics. They thought they had to wait four years to reconnect.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

Twitter wasn't a big thing even on 'Inception;' it certainly wasn't on 'The Dark Knight.'