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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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"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."

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"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."

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"You have no future when the past rules you."

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"Man is always equal to his purpose; when you control him, you do half a job but when you control his purpose, you do a total job."

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"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"

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Amber Hurdle

"I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings."

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"The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely."

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"We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then."

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"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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"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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"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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"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 biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget."
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"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."
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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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