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" There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The process of starting up a new film is one of looking through a lot of material and trying to find something you really like. And it does sometimes take a minute. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes I struggle with being American. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor or an actress and create something so bamboozling and monumental and fathomless in terms of publicity hits. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter way; I just didn't ever look in that direction. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons. "

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

" Action films don't speak to me, because that's not my skill set. I also have a lot of stipulations about stories I don't want to perpetuate, ones that bring me down or make me feel like life's not worth living. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you get ensnared by an idea, and it's what I call 'the sticky burr': You go hiking, and a burr sticks to you, and that's the film you're going to make. "

" I need and want to see capable women. I don't like to see them weep all the time. "