49 ordspråk av Debbie Allen
Debbie Allen
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.
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The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding what's on the page.
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The look of the movie has a kind a muted tone to it at first, and then we introduce color to it as we go along.
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The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration.
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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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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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The screenwriter's role was very instrumental, because it's difficult to take a stage play and adapt it for the screen.
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The upside is that high-definition is a lot cheaper and a lot faster.
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Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the room and the circumstances surrounding it.
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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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There was no question about who should play Lou Bessie. Crystal Fox brought to the role something that was really needed.
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There was too much to absorb. So we had about an 8-day rehearsal, a lot for a movie of this nature.
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There were some scenes where I took ten takes and there were some where I took one.
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There's always a certain degree of physical attraction between people and the rest either happens or it doesn't.
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They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did a great job.
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