I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
BARRY LEVINSONA lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.
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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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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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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 always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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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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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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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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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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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 thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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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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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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I’ve had a lot of movies that didn’t get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.
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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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