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![“What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."” quote by Denzel Washington](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d6d/denzel-washington-1345_acting_what-we-did-shooting-fences-was-we-got-y_2344171.jpg)
![“I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.” quote by Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0b2/oprah-winfrey-186_book_i-tried-documentaries-it-wasn-t-the-time_590976.png)
![“If you go into a comic book store, there are tons of Star Wars stories on the stand. There are lots of different stories to tell. Maybe George [Lucas] won't tell them. Maybe some kid, who's a Star Wars fan that's planning to go to film school, will call Lucas and say, 'I'd like to make a Star Wars…” quote by Samuel L. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c1a/samuel-l-jackson-3595_book_if-you-go-into-a-comic-book-store-there_857673.jpg)
