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Ellen Burstyn

"Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high."

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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."

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Donna Grant

"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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Ellen Burstyn
"It's a sin to have your films not to make money."

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Ellen Burstyn
"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it."

Food

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Ellen Burstyn
"It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one."

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Ellen Burstyn
"I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far."

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Ellen Burstyn
"The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time."

Time

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Ellen Burstyn
"To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it."

Son

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Ellen Burstyn
"Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'"

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Ellen Burstyn
"I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film."

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Ellen Burstyn
"Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high."

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Ellen Burstyn
"I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is."

Life

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