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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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" 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. "

" I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient tradition of writing down notes, of saying, 'Hey people, hey people!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while. "

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

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" American film isn't just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren't the only stories in this vast nation. That's my mandate. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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