Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I’ve not found that to be the situation.
BARRY LEVINSONI 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 got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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I don’t know that you can do an absurdist film and just have everybody embrace it in terms of filling out cards. I just don’t think it happens. So you have to prepare an audience.
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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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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 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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I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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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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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’m fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.
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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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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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