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Debbie Allen

"But out of limitations comes creativity."

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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."

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"For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent."

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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."

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"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."

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"My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me."

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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."

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"Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think."

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"Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully."
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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."
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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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"You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?"
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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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"There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work."
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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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"The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then."
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"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."
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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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