Reviewing the play's Broadway premiere for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that in Ma Rainey, ... sends the entire history of black America crashing down upon our heads.
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The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye... On stage, you can't really control where the viewer's eye goes there's a whole stage picture there, and the viewer can be looking anywhere. But with the camera, if you want the viewer to look at something in particular, you can put their eye there.
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I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things,
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I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know very much about the history of stage-to-film adaptations.
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I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year.
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It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.
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