There’s no downside to having too much experience.
BARRY LEVINSONI would give the cameras to the kids in the swimming pools and they would play with them, and then I would collect them and we would upload it. If you’re in the process, you’re there.
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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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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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I would give the cameras to the kids in the swimming pools and they would play with them, and then I would collect them and we would upload it. If you’re in the process, you’re there.
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I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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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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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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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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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I don’t know that you can do an absurdist film and just have everybody embrace it in terms of filling out cards. I just don’t think it happens. So you have to prepare an audience.
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Ronald Reagan was this actor who was going to be president, and he was very charming. What he had was, he talked about America in ways that got people all caught up in it. He was creating this America – it could even be the mythical “America” – that we subscribe to.
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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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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I’ve not found that to be the situation.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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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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