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

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" 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. "

" I love to champion some of the hardworking actors where, it's been said to me, they don't bring money. But to me, they bring everything. They bring their wonderful selves. "

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

" When I find those actors who are going to work that hard and collaborate that deeply, my role is to make sure there's a whole lot there for them to work with. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel as though perhaps there's not a great match between the content I'm attracted to and the content that is considered attractive to some of the more major or more traditionally financed entities. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" You will never go wrong with actually photographing process. It's primitive. Humans love to see the bipedal animal in us finish things. We just like it! "

" 'Winter's Bone' really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you've got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment. "

" Film is a team thing. There is no auteur. "

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

" Social realism takes research. "

" 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. "

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

" There's all these costs of war, and they're huge and long-lasting. It's not just the numbers CNN broadcasts. And we never want to pay the VA bill; we never want to pay the bill to take care of these warriors after we applaud their sacrifice. "

" My first camera job was filming workplace safety videos, which involved months of watching and videotaping people doing their jobs. I was hooked - from there, I wanted to know where they lived and the rest of their habits and desires. "

" Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film, I get to have a discussion with viewers... and people who enjoy reading films - I enjoy reading other peoples' films, and what discussions can come of that. "

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

" I'm always searching to learn more about our large and diverse country. "

" 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. "

" I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that matter most to me. It's when someone comes and says, 'I will finance your movie if you cast so and so.' "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "