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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.

Barry Levinson

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.
BARRY LEVINSON

Character Moments Play
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.
BARRY LEVINSON

Decision Happen Reason Sometimes
I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
BARRY LEVINSON

Audience Screening Test Thinking
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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Film Movie Number Screening Survive Time
You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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Conclusion Satisfactory Want
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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Kids Playing Swimming
I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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All Always Bad Good Thinking
I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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Happened Line Mayonnaise Movie Thought
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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Business Hollywood Insider Satire Thinking
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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Fine Intimidation Network Sure
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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Achievement First
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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Past Real Thinking
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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Embrace Film Thinking
As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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Digital Editing Made
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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Looks Size Truck Wrong
I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can’t truly define why something succeeds.
BARRY LEVINSON

Magic Succeed Thinking

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.

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