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" I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers. "
Tamra Davis
Girl
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" I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features. "
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" I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making. "
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" Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director. "
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" I understand that in some families both parents have to work, so the kids are home alone eating more processed foods. But if the kids know how to make oatmeal or eggs in the morning or pasta or a lentil soup at night - we're giving them real survival tools. "
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" How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously. "
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Talent
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" I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped. "
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Culture
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" It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25. "
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Think
Hard
You
" I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad. "
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Sad
Everything
Film
" Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned. "
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Scenes
Quoted
Most
" I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project. "
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Love
Just
Energy
" My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York. "
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Los Angeles
New York
World
" All of my main characters have been under 30. "
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Been
Main
Characters
" I hope to work till I'm an old lady. "
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Lady
Till
Hope
" I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal. "
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Healthy
Food
Goal
" A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently. "
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Hard
Body
Diet
" I am so inspired by new media. "
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Media
I Am
Am
" I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity. "
Tamra Davis
Life
Special
My Life
" It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.' "
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Anyone
Like
Saying
" I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor. "
Tamra Davis
Humor
Creativity
Confidence
" In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery. "
Tamra Davis
School
City
Art
" I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character. "
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Loved
Strong
Because
" Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow. "
Tamra Davis
School
Challenge
People
" What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun. "
Tamra Davis
Research
Car
Road
" There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene. "
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Place
Guitar
Film
" Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention. "
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Class
More
" Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever! "
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Someone
Best
Cook
" It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood. "
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Felt
Working
Amazing
" I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film. "
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Good
Story
Interesting
" I'm extremely determined and ambitious. "
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Ambitious
Extremely
Determined
" I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it! "
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Eat
Something
Kid