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    It was nothing like that – they were the most self-motivated people I've ever encountered. "I watched them training on this assault course, which was like something you'd send a horse over. They then went on a run with gas masks on. Then, after they'd done all that, then they trod water in full gear, holding machine guns over their heads. It was kind of mind boggling: you're in California, in this beautiful David Hockney swimming pool, with all these guys in camo gear and machine guns." White's experiences at Camp Pendleton fed directly into what she hoped to bring to Generation Kill. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
    I watched them training on this assault course, which was like something you'd send a horse over. They then went on a run with gas masks on. Then, after they'd done all that, then they trod water in full gear, holding machine guns over their heads. It was kind of mind boggling: you're in California, in this beautiful David Hockney swimming pool, with all these guys in camo gear and machine guns.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
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  1. It's my way into the process. When I directed Holby City, I went and watched open heart surgery . . .
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  2. What makes you think you have the authority to direct actors?
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  3. The marines offered to go and take out the cast of Little Dorrit. But we restrained them . . .
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  4. I'm happy to lose an argument, when losing an argument makes it better. I'm glad that she in no way gave in.
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  5. I was expecting it to be like the movies, there would be a Sergeant Major shouting
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  6. I was slightly in denial about the fact that people saw me as a woman, so I guess it is very satisfying ... I've done this fuck-off, macho piece of work – and people like it.
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  7. was that Susanna was not going to become enamoured with the bang-bang. Which is pretty much the problem with men in general. With each successive conflict we are sold a bill of goods about how perfect and pristine our weaponry is. War is never that way, and it never will be.
    David Simon – David Simon SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
  8. I wanted to get into the heads of the marines
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  9. But as it turned out, he and I had all these connections: Hungarian Jewish families, and similar philosophies. We didn't want to see any acting. What I really liked about The Wire was how they used a lot of real characters: non-actors, acting, and that's very much where I come from.
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