Debra Granik Quotes

I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

I don't like hot takes any more than I like hot cakes.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

Strong and in control - I don't necessarily feel that way. I'm a little bit more scattered in my life. I'm more of a street girl, in a way.

There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?

Intellectual perverts!

Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.

I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

It's very hard to play a man without any flaws.

No one is perfect. I would never claim to be that person.

I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.

I think flawed characters are important, because no one is perfect.

I am human. I don't think I ever put myself out there to be somebody that was perfect. I put myself out there as somebody who wanted to serve the public.

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand.