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

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" It's risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece of storytelling that also happened to explode the myth of American affluence. "

" I would fail if I had to work with stars. And I also can't afford to work that way. I can't afford to have special circumstances for rarified individuals. So, I work with actors who have given me a sign that they're willing to work in these more humble circumstances, in real-life locations. "

" Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues. "

" I'm a trudger. "

" When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing. "

" 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. "

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

" There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing. "

" Sometimes I struggle with being American. "

" There are so many American experiences that we can't know about unless we venture out to create a dialogue, to observe, ask questions, and stay there for a while. "

" #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. "

" What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell. "

" My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it. "

" I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing. "

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

" I get very caught up in the day-to-day and immersed in the scenes as they unfold. It's harder for me, as I'm filming, to see the larger story. "

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

" Social realism takes research. "

" When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they do to keep their lives interesting. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes and many hours of video footage. "

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

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

" There's a period where you feel very hinky and low about yourself, like, 'That was a lot of time, and there's nothing to show for it.' I've tried to tell myself that if you're going to be a filmmaker, you can't really talk like that about time, because you'll hate yourself or feel very worthless. "

" There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving. "

" I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally. "