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"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show."
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"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"

"Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces."

"I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years."

"Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that."

"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."

"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."

"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."
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"And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today."

"I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other."

"Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!"

"I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal."

"The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing."

"One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story."

"And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good."

"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."

"When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing."
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