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Brian De Palma

"I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story."

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"I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Our behavior to ordinary people depicts our actual nature."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"A man's character is his guardian divinity."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"It is better to be gentle than rude."

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Brian De Palma
"That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time."

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Brian De Palma
"I do like directing other people's material."

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Brian De Palma
"When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit."

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Brian De Palma
"And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations."

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Brian De Palma
"But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore."

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Brian De Palma
"Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films."

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Brian De Palma
"It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow."

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Brian De Palma
"Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists."

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Brian De Palma
"And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous."

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Brian De Palma
"I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story."

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