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.
BARRY SONNENFELD
I haven’t read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
More Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes
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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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By definition a sequel can’t be original. So you’ve got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept.
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I haven’t read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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I don’t believe in leaving a scene in because it was really hard to shoot, or because it’s the reason you took the movie, or because you always wanted to work with an actor . . . If it’s not making the movie work, get rid of it.
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I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.
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The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release.
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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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I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
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It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
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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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It always happens at the end that you’re always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I’ve had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.
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