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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Females
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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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.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are allowed to more carefully select and curate what it is you're going to explore.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020