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1. After pages 3-4

    "This is not a movie about bars and locked doors. It is about being alone when you are not really alone and about being scared all the time." (Pages 3-4)

 I think it means when your alone you don't have to be scared and when your scared your not alone. There is never a time when your alone.

2. On page 19

"I didn't say it was bad, but wasn't it predictable? You need to predict without predicting. You know what I men? When you make a film, you leave an impression on the viewers who serve as a kind of jury for your film. If you make your film predictable, they'll make up their minds about it long before it's over."

 Something that's predictable it not really a good film at all .so the story is not predictable you have to figure it out on your own.

3. On page 21

    "Most people in our communities are decent, hardworking citizens who pursue their own interests legally and without infringing on the rights of others. But there are also monsters in our communities--people who are willing to steal and to kill, people who disregard the rights of others.

people who are willing to steal will probably be willing to do anything. But even if they have a made a mistake here and there doesnt make them a bad person. Just beacuse a hardworking person does leagal things and donesnt bother others doesnt meant that they cant make mistakes.

4.  on page 26

    "...the laws also protect the accused, and that is the wonder and beauty of the American system of justice. ...We apply the law equally to both sides. The law that protects society all of society.

I think the law should be the same for all criminals and for all that are innocent it should be the same.

5. On page 46

    "I hate this place. I hate this place. I can't writ it enough times to make it look the way I feel. I hate, hate, hate this place!!

I would hate jail myself if he's innocent he doesn't need to be there. If he's not then he should face the facts of his crime.

6.on page 59

    "It's funny, but when I'm sitting in the courtroom, I don't feel like I'm involved in the case. It's like the lawyers and the judge and everybody are doing a job that involves me, but I don't have a role. It's only when I go back to the cells that I know I'm involved."

I think he is just in another world when a court is going on but in his cell hes in the real world it hits him.

7. On page 78-79

    "Half of those jurors, no matter what they said when we questioned them when we picked the jury, believed you were guilty the moment they laid eyes on you. You're young, you're Black, and you're on trial. What else do they need to know?"

if there going to make a remark like that I find that nothing but a racist comment and that is just not fare at all i draw the line.

8. On page 89

    " 'All they can do is put me in jail,' he said. 'They can't touch my soul.' "

That's all they really can do. they cant touch him other wise.

9. On page 91

    "I think about myself so much, about what's going to happen to me and all, that I don't think about my folks that much. I know Mama loves me, but I wonder what she's thinking."

That's all he can do. He wont know what she's thinking unless he actually talks to her.

10. On pages 115-116

    "Seeing my dad cry like that was just so terrible. What was going on between us, me being his son and him being my dad, is pushed down and something else is moving up in its place. It's like a man looking down to see his son and seeing a monster instead."

It would be hard to see a son like that thinking is there something i could of done. But there's nothing he can do at the moment for his son.

11. On page 140

    "What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt. . . Sunset said he committed the crime, Isn't that what being guilty is all about? You actually do something?"

I dont think he did anything he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.

12. On page 237

    " His film footage shows me what he's seeing and, to a large extent, what he's thinking. And what he sees, the humanity of it, speaks of a very deep character...

It is my belief that to make an honest film, one has to be an honest person."

I think he's a honest person and is convicted of a crime he didn't do.

13. on page 261

"They are all equally guilty. The one who grabbed the cigarettes, the one who wrestled for the gun, the one who checked the place to see if the coast was clear."

Yea they are all as guilty they all had something to do with it . The only person who is innocent is steve because he wasnt part of it and is being accused of murder anyways.