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I am so inspired by new media.
Tamra Davis / Music Video Director
New Media
I Am New Media
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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Mom
Sick
Afford
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I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
Tamra Davis / Music Video Director
Old Lady
Lady
Till
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Determined
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I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.
Tamra Davis / Music Video Director
Mentoring
Filmmakers
Young Filmmakers
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Eggs
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Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!
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Vacation
Meals
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A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
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Hectic
Household
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
Tamra Davis / Music Video Director
Talking
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Running provides an outlet for my mind to relax and my peace to be still.
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Running
Mind
Relax
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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Madison
Billy
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Developing
Sensibility
Music Video
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It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
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Handful
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Pesto is such a great standard. It's so simple to make and always tastes good.
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Tastes
Standard
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In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
Tamra Davis / Music Video Director
Adam
Madison
Adam Sandler
Billy
Sandler
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Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.
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Madison
Stranger
Billy
Frequently
Quoted
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
Tamra Davis / Music Video Director
New Things
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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Classroom
Helping
Great Your Way
Great Way School
Great Way
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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Pop Culture
Work Culture People
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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Diet
Function
Salt
Sugar
Fat
Efficiently
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Hollywood
Romanticism
Surrounded
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Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
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Attention
Class
Groups
Splitting
Overcrowded
Smaller
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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Talented
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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Los Angeles
Angeles
Connection
Different World
Los
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I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
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Chaos
Motherhood
Babies
Great Way
Reality Show
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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Statistic
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I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.
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Consistently
Headed
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Enthusiasm
Genuinely
Push
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I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.
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Scripts
Strong Female
Female Character
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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Twenties
Directing
Feature
Music Videos
Thirties
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I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.
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Theory
Good Film
Shoot
Medium
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There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
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Continuity
Features
Musician
Close-Up
Jump
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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Good Food
Recipes
Good Home Food
Explain
Go Home
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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Sad
Died
Years Ago
Shot
My Friend
Tapes
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
Tamra Davis / Music Video Director
Add
Awake
Lunch
Method
Prepared
Tilt
Dressed
Edge
Fed
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In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery.
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Film School
Gallery
Larry
Los Angeles
Painter
Visiting
Angeles
Los
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
Tamra Davis / Music Video Director
Ambition
Believe In Yourself
Establishment
Fuel
Idealistic
Surround
Surround Yourself
Believe In Yourself Believe Yourself
Believe Yourself Surround Yourself
Talented
Push
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I understand that in some families both parents have to work, so the kids are home alone eating more processed foods. But if the kids know how to make oatmeal or eggs in the morning or pasta or a lentil soup at night - we're giving them real survival tools.
Tamra Davis / Music Video Director
Eggs
Oatmeal
Pasta
Soup
Survival
Tools
Alone Work Morning
Foods
Processed
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If you think you are a filmmaker... make a film, and then show it. You need to be able to finish what you started so it is presentable. When you screen it and see if your film has an effect on an audience, you will understand what it means to be a filmmaker.
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Your Will See
Finish
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I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.
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Add
Dishes
Ingredients
Adding
Concept
Entirely
Meal
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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Cameras
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I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.
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Extraordinary
Intensity
Reinventing
Life People My Life
Amazingly
Crushing
Talented
Plane
Talented People
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I wanted to make a film that wasn't just a biography. When you watched it, you actually felt that you watched a movie, that you had an emotional reaction. In order to do that, I felt that I had to really keep myself emotionally raw while working on the film. I had to feel myself crying, so the audience could be moved, too.
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Biographies
Emotional
Order
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project. The project that influenced me the most is this cooking show I do online. I film it all myself, and I think making so many of those gave me the confidence that all I need is a camera, and I could go and do an interview. The freedom to be a filmmaker - you just need a camera.
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Crazy
Passion
Thinking
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