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Nia Long

"Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper."

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"Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper."

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A.E. Samaan

"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."

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A.E. Samaan

"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."

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A.E. Samaan

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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A.E. Samaan

"To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another."

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A.E. Samaan

"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."

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A.E. Samaan

"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."

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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."

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A.E. Samaan

"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."

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A.E. Samaan

"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."

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Nia Long
"Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper."

Film

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Nia Long
"I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work."

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Nia Long
"It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit, I run a little bit, I might sprain an ankle every now and them, but it's all good and the more you do it, the more in shape you are and it's like a machine."

Work

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Nia Long
"We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet."

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Nia Long
"You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen."

Commitment

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Nia Long
"I think you grow through your experiences; you get better as you grow and I'm not nearly where I think I'm going to be eventually where I inspire to be and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come."

Will

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Nia Long
"I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not."

Mother

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Nia Long
"I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so."

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"They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment."

Being

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Nia Long
"I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it."

Day

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