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" I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film. "
Kathryn Bigelow
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" Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well. "
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" My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one. "
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" War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. "
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" The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process. "
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