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Shirley Knight

"I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell."

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"I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell."

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"'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning."

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"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."

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"So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!"

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"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."

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"My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world."

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"I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him."

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