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.
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 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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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 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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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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 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 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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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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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 thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that’s what ultimately works the best for me.
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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 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 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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