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" Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence. "

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" No one has a green light when they start a documentary - not ever. "

" It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision. "

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

" Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources. "

" There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film. "

" You have so much more time to observe and learn with a documentary because of the time between the shoots. You get a much deeper understanding of day-to-day life and its themes. It's also much more of a mess after three years; you have to comb it out carefully and see what fits together and makes sense. "

" 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. "

" Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell. "

" I don't want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are allowed to more carefully select and curate what it is you're going to explore. "

" People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while. "

" I need and want to see capable women. I don't like to see them weep all the time. "

" 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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" I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial. "

" For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust. "

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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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" 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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