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"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."
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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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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."

"Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage."

"I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it."

"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."

"There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work."

"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."

"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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