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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

Barry Levinson

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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All Always Bad Good Thinking
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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Anxiety Chance Country Film Person Two
I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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Happened Line Mayonnaise Movie Thought
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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Business Hollywood Insider Satire Thinking
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
I’ve had a lot of movies that didn’t get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.
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Film Movie Number Screening Survive Time
As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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Digital Editing Made
I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can’t truly define why something succeeds.
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Magic Succeed Thinking
You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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Conclusion Satisfactory Want
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.
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Interesting Looks Mistake
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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Break Idea Thinking Up
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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Certain Happens Proven
It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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Audience Hard Respond Ultimately
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 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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Actors And Television Began Eventually Thing Writing

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