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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 Levinson

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.
BARRY LEVINSON

Human Human Relationships Kind Relations
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
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
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
It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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Audience Hard Respond Ultimately
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
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
They’re intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can’t do.
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Fine Intimidation Network Sure
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 LEVINSON

Break Idea Thinking Up
You do understand that you can’t force the situation, but in terms of how you edit, you can define that to take the audience along, whether it be a storyline or a character moment that we can play out. The more experience you’ve had, the more beneficial it is, period.
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Character Moments Play
As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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Digital Editing Made
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 think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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Audience Screening Test Thinking
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
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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Hands House Television
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
BARRY LEVINSON

Achievement First

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