Secondary Quotes

• 'it's always difficult to put on screen material that isn't all that well-known and that raises questions about contemporary American society, so that was a challenge.' Granik.
• 'big corporations - big farmer and big agriculture - have hollowed out the American heartland from the standpoint of employment.' Granik
• 'i see it as a little like a German or Scandinavian fairy tale, one of those old stories where a person ventures deep into the woods to retrieve an emblem of their courage.' Granik
• 'Winters bone reveals a forgotten american fractured by military conflicts and financial crises... the refuse of unchecked capatalism.' Critic.
• Granik takes the traditional masculine depiction of rural life and subverts it by framing everything that unfolds through Rees piercing gaze.