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Debbie Allen

"I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it."

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"I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it."

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Donna Grant

"Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind."

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Donna Grant

"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."

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Donna Grant

"Dance with the waves of sea and sing with the sky,touch the sands with love and let your mind fly high."

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Donna Grant

"I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together."

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Donna Grant

"The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart."

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Donna Grant

"Dance as if you got lost in the mystery and beauty of life."

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Donna Grant

"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."

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Donna Grant

"In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff."

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Donna Grant

"It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group."

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Donna Grant

"The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance."

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Debbie Allen
"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."

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Debbie Allen
"The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then."

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"You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?"

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"I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director."

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Debbie Allen
"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."

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Debbie Allen
"Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage."

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Debbie Allen
"But out of limitations comes creativity."

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"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."

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"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."

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Debbie Allen
"But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period."

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