It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
BARRY SONNENFELD
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And then through editing, and finishing the effects and adding music, you get to make the movie better again. So I’m really hard on myself and on the movie.
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Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he’s a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.
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I’m not the one or two take guy, but I’m not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it’s usually for some technical reasons.
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There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it’s the closest I’ll ever come to being able to be a stand up.
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And then through editing, and finishing the effects and adding music, you get to make the movie better again. So I’m really hard on myself and on the movie.
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I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.
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And my feeling was if I was going to succeed as a director, I had to just be a director and give up the safety net of being a cameraman.
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I’m an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
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When I move from being a cameraman to being a director I looked at a lot of other cameramen who tried to make the move. And in each case they moved up their camera operator to be the DP, which really meant they didn’t want to give up being the DP, and really wanted to do both.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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