Kathleen Turner on acting: conversations about film, television, and theater

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Working with the script -- Directing yourself -- Working with directors -- Collaborating with other artists -- In the beginning ... -- Lessons learned from working in television -- Choosing roles -- Body heat -- The man with two brains -- Romancing the stone -- Crimes of passion -- Prizzi's honor -- Peggy Sue got married -- The accidental tourist -- The war of the Roses -- Serial mom -- The virgin suicides -- The perfect family -- Working with edgy material -- Acting in film -- The stagte versus the screen -- Acting in the theater -- The intimacy of the theater -- Camille -- Reading reviews -- The graduate -- Cat on a hot tin roof -- Indiscretions -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf -- High -- Red hot patriot -- Mother Courage and her children -- The year of magical thinking -- The life of an actor -- Fame, aging and vanity -- Using the voice -- Advice for developing actors -- Studying acting -- The process of auditioning -- Dealing with rejection -- Working in the industry -- Teaching acting -- Acting and daily life -- Looking ahead and moving forward -- A closer look at the film performances.;Over Kathleen Turner's forty-year career, she has developed an instinctual knowledge of what it takes to be a successful actor. In conversations with film professor Dustin Morrow, she shares her lessons with the world.