"The words are verbatim. The words are exactly what the people said. When I was a girl, my grandfather said, “If you say a word often enough, it becomes you,” and that’s really my technique. I really believe that if I learn exactly what somebody said, that I will find myself, as an actor, in a similar state of mind as them. I’ll never know what they’re really thinking, but I’ll have some of their feelings…"
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On trying to capture the words of her interviewees to produce an accurate play in “The Power of Words: A Conversation with Anna Deavere Smith” in LA Screenwriter
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