We need to let black America know, we do want you, but we want you on the terms of the United States of America, ... And we want you to be full and complete human beings.
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There's only maybe two pages in Jane's book that deals with the marriage because she was really talking only about her becoming an EMT and going through this midlife crisis, ... So when Alan Hines wrote the screenplay, he sat down with Michael Stern and really got down to the bottom of what was going on in that relationship. The work was there in the script.
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Bates had explored some of the themes of the story depression, overcoming fears before. Marriage, however, was newer territory. It's always presented either as the romance or the tragedy, ... We don't look too often at what marriage really is. Marriage masks thousands of different arrangements behind the scenes, it's all about change and negotiation and compromise. But we have the same attitudes toward marriage that we have toward death and dying we want to sanitize it.
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They sent the material to me as an actress, ... I liked it so much, and I identified with the character and the script so much, I thought I don't want anybody else telling me what to do, so can I please direct this
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