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 LEVINSONI 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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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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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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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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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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I think we are seeing a radical shift in the business in general. The studios are making much more of the real big extravaganzas and there are other kinds of films that are coming out. I think you are going to begin to see more diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
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I think it’s a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
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I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.
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The interesting thing about movies, it’s not always – y’know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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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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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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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.
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