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There’s no downside to having too much experience.

Barry Levinson

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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Achievement First
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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Couple Exercise School
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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Human Human Relationships Kind Relations
I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can’t truly define why something succeeds.
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Magic Succeed Thinking
No one really has the power, and everybody’s trying to get through the day, and everybody’s nervous and desperate.
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Desperate Nervous Trying
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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Film Interesting Television
I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things – worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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Hands House Television
You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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Conclusion Satisfactory Want
I’m fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.
BARRY LEVINSON

Documentary Fascinate Journey Long
I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.
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Appeal Palin Start Talk Thinking
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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Break Idea Thinking Up
There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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Downside Experience Much Too
I don’t know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It’s like doing Wag The Dog – we took a thing that was almost completely absurd on one level, and then ultimately those things came about.
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Crazy Dog Mean
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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Atmosphere Behavior Trying
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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Film Movie Number Screening Survive Time
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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Fine Intimidation Network Sure

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