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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" A big part of the equation for 'Winter's Bone' was making it for so little that we owe nobody. We had a guaranteed loan and were able to pay it back. "

" There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" Social realism takes research. "

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

" 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. "

" The challenge for me is to make sure I've done my work. To make sure not every scene is quiet, that other scenes rise up, that there's different tension. "

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

" 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. "

" #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. "