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.
BARRY LEVINSONI 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 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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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 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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There was a time when I said, “I’m going to go do a television thing,” after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, “Television? Why are you going to go back to television?” It’s an interesting place.
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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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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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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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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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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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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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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 thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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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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