I'm always searching to learn more about our large and diverse country.

There are so many American experiences that we can't know about unless we venture out to create a dialogue, to observe, ask questions, and stay there for a while.

I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.

Action films don't speak to me, because that's not my skill set. I also have a lot of stipulations about stories I don't want to perpetuate, ones that bring me down or make me feel like life's not worth living.

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

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

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.

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

My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes and many hours of video footage.

My first camera job was filming workplace safety videos, which involved months of watching and videotaping people doing their jobs. I was hooked - from there, I wanted to know where they lived and the rest of their habits and desires.

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

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.

The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man.

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

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

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.

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

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

In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives.

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.

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!'

'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.

Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'

I can be quite argumentative and stubborn if I get a bee in my bonnet. I can be quite a pain.

I think from doing so many live shows it gives you a real appreciation of being present. You don't know what's going to happen, you don't know what is around the corner.

I think there is more to this world than we can possibly fathom. There's got to be.

Anyone who's ever had a loved one go through addiction will know just how devastating it can be and how tough it is for those around them, as much as it is for the addict.

It's a big thing, our relationship with ITV.

I'm not sure I'm confident in the viewing public seeing every side of me and I'm not sure I'm confident enough that I'd allow myself to be that exposed.

I grew up being called Eamonn-Martin-Dermott-Declan because I was the youngest of the boys and Mum would go through all their names first before she got to mine.

I think you learn every day. You can't buy experiences; all these experiences shape you.

I think working as part of a brotherhood shows you can achieve personal satisfaction in a team.

My dad was born in Desertmartin at the foot of Slieve Gallion.

When we were first doing kids' shows with the BBC they asked us where we wanted to be in a few years' time and we said we want to be where Noel Edmonds is.

Ours is a career built on a friendship, not a friendship built on a career.

When people are so nice about you, you get emotional and cry. But we never take it for granted.

Ant and Dec seemed a natural name for us - it was just how people referred to us, cos we were always together. I've never resented the fact that his name comes first.

We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.

We saw the band as an acting job - it was an extension of 'Byker Grove.' We were even still called PJ and Duncan.

I think obviously there is some kind of life form somewhere else. Whether it looks like the creature in 'Alien Autopsy,' I'm not sure.

We treated it as another acting job. Some of these other bands had been put together, and it was their dream come true to be in a band, and that wasn't really the case for us. It was the next part of what we were doing.

I might be a natural show-off but being your best mate's best man is a different kettle of fish.

Not always behind the scenes is it sunny.

I love a bathroom and fluffy bathrobe. Bear Grylls and camping... that's not me!

We want to bring the kids, the parents, the grandparents and grandkids together, we want them to have a shared viewing experience. We want the kids to talk about it in the playground, dad to talk about it down the pub, grandma to talk about it while she's out shopping.

Cool is just something we've never been.

We never want the audience to get bored.

We always said our career was built on our friendship and that our friendship was the secret of our success. The career just happened by accident.

When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.

I was an average student. Not a dunce. Used to play for the school football team.