"The most important thing an artist can discover is a love of process."

“Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.”

“The only rule is that there are no rules.”

“In some ways, I think "Pulp Fiction" hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to "Pulp Fiction".”

“Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.”

“...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.”

“The climate informs the character.”

Source : "Interview: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham and Courtney Hunt on “Frozen River”". Interview with Stephen Saito, www.ifc.com. July 29, 2008.

“Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.”

“Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.”