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Debbie Allen

"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?"

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"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?"

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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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"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."
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"But out of limitations comes creativity."
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"In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time."
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"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."
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"The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration."
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"But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period."
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"There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work."
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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 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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