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" 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. "

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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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" Sometimes I struggle with being American. "

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" Social realism takes research. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States. "

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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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" It can't change anything immediately, but films can absolutely be catalysts for conversation. "

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" 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? "

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" 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. "

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" I'm reaching for emotion and drama, the drama of the everyday: what happens when you don't have shelter, food, and clothing. There are some stakes. If you're displaced or evicted, there's a suspense: How will you solve that? "

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

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" 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. "

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" #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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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" 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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" 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. "

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