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Tim Robbins

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

You know, as I was seeing this develop, I was like, there's got to be one country that just says, no, we're not doing this.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

And I just was blown away that it had this kind of coordinated...

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

and that scared me a little bit.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

And I was like, well, what is this really about?

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

What is this about?

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

And so those questions led me to ask those questions in the play, using the chorus as a means to figure out these people who, lovely singing together at the beginning of the play, they sound beautiful, and then they...

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

they are told they have to separate.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

And so how does a chorus harmonize when they are kept from each other?

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

I have complete freedom.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

And I've always, from the very start, held that to be the most important thing.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

We started the Actors Gang out of UCLA in 1982.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

I'm talking about eight or nine young punk rock infused actors that just wanted to make some noise and have fun and tell stories.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

And we did this play called Ubu Wa, Ubu the King.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

This was the first play we did and we did it in this dark street in Hollywood at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

And it was a big success, and it told us that we have this great opportunity, and we started doing other plays.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

But then, right around the same time, I started getting work.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

And I had financed Ubu the King on my salary from delivering pizzas in Beverly Hills.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

If you're going to deliver pizzas, by the way, that's the place.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

Good tips.

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Tim Robbins Believes In The Power Of Theater

Good tips.