"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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William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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Henry Fielding, English Novelist

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"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look."

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"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."

Wayne Dyer, American Psychologist

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"I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career."

Nancy Kerrigan, American Athlete

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"When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers."

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"Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club."

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Time

"The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that."

Time

"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"

Actor

"It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage."

Movies

"There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work."

Work

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

Time

"In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time."

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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?"

First

"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."

Riot

"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."

Day