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.
BARRY LEVINSONI 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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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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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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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things – worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.
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I think it’s a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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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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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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I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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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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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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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