I don't want to influence your vision of the movie, so let's watch it first and we'll talk about whatever you want to talk.

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We Southerners are complicit in defining our region by what is peculiar about it.

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It wasn't fun, ... I didn't have time to have fun. But thanks to those 20 days, I've had more fun than I've ever dreamed of.

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I wasn't interested in avoiding stereotypes or clichs. Because I think that's a fool's errand. You go around and around trying to make that happen. It was a question of accepting or acknowledging these clichs . . . and saying, yes, these are types. But then exploring these types and moving them toward human-hood.

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I can speak for Unity when I say we have everything we need.

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We just plugged in and did what we had to do.

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What really impressed me was that one of my friends went to a Max Ophuls retrospective at Lincoln Center — and Michael Barker was there every day. When your distributor is doing that, you know it's not just a job. They really love movies.

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I'm not sure the state took into consideration the needs of all students. Most schools have very diverse learning populations.

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What I'll always be grateful to Amy for is that she never tried to apply her own logic to the character. During her audition, it struck me that she was really teaching me about the movie.

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