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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."

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"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take."

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