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

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"When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine."

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"To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge."

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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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"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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"But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period."
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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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"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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"But out of limitations comes creativity."
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"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."
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