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It's wonderful to see someone you love get what they wanted.
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Imagine you wake up one morning with a knock at the door, and when you answer, there's Denzel Washington announcing that he's going to be filming on your street for several weeks.
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We try to do that for stories - we try to say, 'OK, here's the message, here's the theme, here's the good people and the bad.' Life is not nearly like that.
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I always say you don't want to get it right, you want to get it true.
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Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready - blues, a lot of times, is about the loss of love.
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To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.
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Sometimes a mentor has to be reminded of the principles he has tried to instill in others.
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To do it on film, where it'll be seen by more people than have seen the play since it was written, it humbles you.
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Don't listen to some outside interpretation - do the scene as it makes sense to you and the other actor.
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Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it