Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you’re always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason – not even pointing fingers, it just is.
BARRY LEVINSONAs soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that’s what ultimately works the best for me.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.
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They’re intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can’t do.
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I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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There was a time when I said, “I’m going to go do a television thing,” after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, “Television? Why are you going to go back to television?” It’s an interesting place.
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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I’ve not found that to be the situation.
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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.
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I’ve had a lot of movies that didn’t get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.
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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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Even back in the ’90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn’t digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera and we would up it to film.
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We’re never going to be the ultimate-insider look. You can do 50 insider looks at this Hollywood business, and the satire didn’t intrigue me. I think others can do that.
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I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.
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