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"The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one."
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"One is forever throwing away substance for shadows."

"The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not to admit. One must set themselves free from all inhibitions in order to initiate close encounters with their innermost monster. By standing toe-to-toe with the part of ourselves that we most detest, a person is in a position to slay their fiendish sense of self and, by doing so, undergo a soulful transformation."

"You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there."
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"The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing."

"One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story."

"The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are."

"When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing."

"I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal."

"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."

"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show."

"I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through."
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