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" When I read Daniel Woodrell's novel 'Winter's Bone,' I was drawn to the characters, the setting, and the sound of the dialog. "

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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. "

" History has shown that there needs to be some agora, or public spaces, and I think that we already live a lot of our life on a laptop, or even smaller devices that we hold in our hands. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" We just started filming 'Stray Dog' really close to the finishing of 'Winter's Bone,' down in Southern Missouri. "

" I'm a trudger. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while. "

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

" There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving. "

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

" When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they do to keep their lives interesting. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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