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Debbie Allen

"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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"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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Donna Grant

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

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Donna Grant

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

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Donna Grant

"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."

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Donna Grant

"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."

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Donna Grant

"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."

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Donna Grant

"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."

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Donna Grant

"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."

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Donna Grant

"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."

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Donna Grant

"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."

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Donna Grant

"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."

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

Woman

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Debbie Allen
"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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Debbie Allen
"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

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Debbie Allen
"The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget."

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

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Debbie Allen
"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

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