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Illeana Douglas

"I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress."

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"I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress."

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Aberjhani

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Aberjhani

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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Aberjhani

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Aberjhani

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Aberjhani

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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Aberjhani

"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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Aberjhani

"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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Aberjhani

"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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Aberjhani

"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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Illeana Douglas
"I like doing movies that relate to people's experience."

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Illeana Douglas
"When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times."

Home

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Illeana Douglas
"There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering."

People

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Illeana Douglas
"I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had."

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Illeana Douglas
"God only knows what else is on the web about me."

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Illeana Douglas
"I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period."

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Illeana Douglas
"I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic."

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Illeana Douglas
"We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans."

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Illeana Douglas
"I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing."

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Illeana Douglas
"In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting."

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