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"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"
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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."
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"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."
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"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."
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"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
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"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."
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"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."
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"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
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"With my background, I came out of the theater."
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"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
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"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."
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"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
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"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening."
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"I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful."
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"I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered."
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"The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense."
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"I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen."
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"Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do."
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"Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that."
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"I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell."
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"My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable."
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