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 LEVINSONI 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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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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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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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 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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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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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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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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