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What happens is you submit your script with an idea of what the budget might be, and the financier will offer you less than that. In order to do it for less, it means cutting out the art, usually.

~Ellen Burstyn

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With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave him the money he needed to make the film. He cast it with the actors that he thought were right for the parts. Now, it's the reverse.

~Ellen Burstyn

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I've always wanted to work with my friend Al Pacino.

~Ellen Burstyn

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It's interesting: John Calley at Warner Bros. helped me put 'Alice' together. It was very unusual back then for a studio to support an actress the way he backed and supported me. He even asked me if I wanted to direct the film, which I didn't feel prepared to at that point.

~Ellen Burstyn

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Today, people like Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep have vowed to improve the opportunities for women, but those promises are still unusual.

~Ellen Burstyn

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The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden in Rockland County on the Hudson River in the 1980s. I had all the actors from the Actors Studio come out, and we made our own costumes.

~Ellen Burstyn

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When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William Shakespeare. The play I read on that journey was 'Titus Andronicus.'

~Ellen Burstyn

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I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

~Ellen Burstyn

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I was doing the work I was capable of doing with my own native talent, but when I looked at actors like Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, Kim Stanley, and Geraldine Page, I knew that they knew something that I didn't know. I wanted to find out what that was.

~Ellen Burstyn

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I left my career in Hollywood, moved back to New York, and went to Lee Strasberg and studied with him for the rest of his life.

~Ellen Burstyn

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: December 7th, 1932

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