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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 bring forward stories from the lives of everyday Americans: those whose path hasn't been set out on easy street or who haven't been given it all, those who are actually forging ahead because of their own personal resources, their moxie, their survival instincts. "

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" We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach. "

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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. "

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" The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless! "

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" I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life. "

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" 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. "

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" You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing. "

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" The social-media discourse is very different from what it might be on the ground. It's easy to bloviate without having to look anyone in the eye and then having those sentiments swell and amplify and go viral. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" We just started filming 'Stray Dog' really close to the finishing of 'Winter's Bone,' down in Southern Missouri. "

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" For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered. "

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

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