Miriam, What I Loved About Your Films

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I thought that the way in which you portrayed the various responses to be very empathetic. Roxanne's work has been a huge influence on me and certainly was very present in my mind as I was making this film. What I loved about Miriam's book and what I tried to sort of translate to the screen was this idea that there's not one valid response. There's this myriad of responses to this violence that range from anger to sadness to paralysis to equanimity to fury, all of these would be understood equally.

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