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To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

~Ellen Burstyn

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Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

~Ellen Burstyn

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It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

~Ellen Burstyn

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Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

~Ellen Burstyn

Topics: About Children Enough Enough Money Feed Food Getting Life Money Put Table

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I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.

~Ellen Burstyn

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They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

~Ellen Burstyn

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It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

~Ellen Burstyn

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I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

~Ellen Burstyn

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The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

~Ellen Burstyn

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I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: December 7th, 1932

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