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Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. They did it four times. 'Faster,' said Ang [Lee]....

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the v...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

We've hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath t...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone t...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Eliza...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.