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" History has shown that there needs to be some agora, or public spaces, and I think that we already live a lot of our life on a laptop, or even smaller devices that we hold in our hands. "

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" 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. "

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" It's almost like Time's Up allowed some really good old-school players to stand up and say, 'We're actually just really normal companies that want to facilitate culture-making. Some of us are even in it for the slow returns.' "

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" It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen? "

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" I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States. "

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" I'm reaching for emotion and drama, the drama of the everyday: what happens when you don't have shelter, food, and clothing. There are some stakes. If you're displaced or evicted, there's a suspense: How will you solve that? "

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" All filmmakers want the option to make another film, to have it not always be such an uphill battle - for it to be our life, our working life. "

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" The questions that loom can be intimidating. 'What kind of moves is she gonna make? What is she gonna do?' There is this pressure that you're supposed to keep impressing. "

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" #TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different. "

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" What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself? "

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" 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. "

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" A role is never just a ready-made thing. "

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" Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition. "

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" It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself. "

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" Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It's a long process. "

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" My ego is one thing. Of course I want people to like what I do. Of course. There's no doubt. You wouldn't do it. But I think what people don't fully know is how responsible you feel for so many entities. So many hardworking people who've collaborated. "

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" I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen. "

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" I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for Easy Street. "

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" Our necks are getting injured from looking down, and the movie screen gives you opportunity to look up, you know? It gives you an opportunity to possibly have a discussion with someone afterwards. "

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" The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter way; I just didn't ever look in that direction. "

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" I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between. "

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" Make your film for the least amount you can. "

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" In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation. "

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" In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting. "

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" The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you. "

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" It can't change anything immediately, but films can absolutely be catalysts for conversation. "

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" American film isn't just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren't the only stories in this vast nation. That's my mandate. "

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" I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by material wealth - they have nothing to do with that. "

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" In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect. "

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" 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. "

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" Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot. "

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