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" 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. "

Debra Granik
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" In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation. "
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" There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving. "
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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition. "
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" Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues. "
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" The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so coming to a book is more ready-made. You at least have the story that someone sorted out. "
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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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" Film is a team thing. There is no auteur. "
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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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" 'Winter's Bone' really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you've got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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!' "
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" Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons. "
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" There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" A role is never just a ready-made thing. "
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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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" In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting. "
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" I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between. "
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" Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there's something that - you know, they don't come for no reason. It's just that it takes time to explore complexity. "
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" 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. "
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