Debra Granik Quotes

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.

There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.

We have pleaded to the entertainment industry to raise their standards and protect our children.

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

People don't really see television shows and movies as different anymore. They expect the same quality.