A lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.
BARRY LEVINSONI do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.
More Barry Levinson Quotes
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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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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I’ve not found that to be the situation.
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As 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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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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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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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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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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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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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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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