I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.
BARRY LEVINSONAs soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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No one really has the power, and everybody’s trying to get through the day, and everybody’s nervous and desperate.
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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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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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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 think we are seeing a radical shift in the business in general. The studios are making much more of the real big extravaganzas and there are other kinds of films that are coming out. I think you are going to begin to see more diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
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Ronald Reagan was this actor who was going to be president, and he was very charming. What he had was, he talked about America in ways that got people all caught up in it. He was creating this America – it could even be the mythical “America” – that we subscribe to.
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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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