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Debbie Allen

"That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene."

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"That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene."

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"God's goal is to establish His righteousness on this earth."

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"Control is not humble, control is arrogant."

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"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage."

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"Try to control your anger before it burns your life."

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"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."

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"All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others."

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"You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it."

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"What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it."

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"We don't do what we want to, we do what we are allowed to."

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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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"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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"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 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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