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Skinniness is not your friend when youre over 40. Id like to gain

Skinniness is not your friend when youre over 40. Id like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldnt look at myself. – Ellen Barkin

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The way Hollywood portrays mothers – youre either all good and saint-like, or youre all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. – Ellen Barkin

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But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that. – Ellen Barkin

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I dont know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic – a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters. – Ethan Hawke

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When I was a little boy I used to borrow my fathers hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies. – Charles Kuralt

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