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" Social realism takes research. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives. "

" The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you. "

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

" 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're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us on. But because films cost a lot of money to make and a huge amount of effort to get the people to rally, you have to really like it; you can't just semi-like it. Getting to 'really like' is the part that takes the minute. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a trudger. "

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

" You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me. "

" 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. "

" I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system - on the programming and making side, and on the curating side - which is that we now have a higher threshold for the salacious. We have a higher threshold, unprecedented, for fast, cheap, and out of control. "

" 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. "

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