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"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."
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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."
"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."
"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?"
"The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget."
"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."
"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."
"But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period."
"There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work."
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