Debra Granik Quotes

I've been blessed enough to have my eyes open because of music, first and foremost.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

You're only a new artist one time, and I can just say I'm so blessed. I feel so inspired to do other things, to be so much more.

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

Oh, 'The Thing' is one of my favorite movies of all time. That changed my life because I was like, 'I've got to do this.' Something that scared me that much? It was the first R-rated movie I ever saw, and I was like, 'Dude, I'm changed.'

I want to be inspired, and I want to hopefully do work that moves people as well.

I watch films that inspire me and make me want to go to work the next morning, that really push you and motivate you. So in that aspect, I look up to a lot of people.

There's no greater feeling than knowing that you helped in transforming someone and moving them through art. It's a beautiful thing.

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.

Often times people forget that every human has potential to change the world like Steve Jobs did.

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.

Any good film you see gives you enough motivation and adrenaline rush to produce good content, while a bad film can get you so angry that you produce even better content.

People say to me about my music 'it got me through college, it saved my marriage, it helped me to come out.' It's wonderful to be part of someone's life in a big way.'