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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Barry Levinson

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.
BARRY LEVINSON

Interesting Memorable Way
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
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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Camera Digital Film
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
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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Charming People President
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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Certain Happens Proven
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 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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Looks Size Truck Wrong
I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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Audience Screening Test Thinking
I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
BARRY LEVINSON

Happened Line Mayonnaise Movie Thought
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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Actors Country Laughing United States
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
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
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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Decision Happen Reason Sometimes
There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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Downside Experience Much Too
I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can’t truly define why something succeeds.
BARRY LEVINSON

Magic Succeed Thinking

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

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