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.
BARRY LEVINSONI thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
More Barry Levinson Quotes
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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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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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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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The interesting thing about movies, it’s not always – y’know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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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.
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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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I don’t know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It’s like doing Wag The Dog – we took a thing that was almost completely absurd on one level, and then ultimately those things came about.
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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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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 think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.
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I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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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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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that’s what ultimately works the best for me.
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