When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
BARRY LEVINSONI 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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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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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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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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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I’ve not found that to be the situation.
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I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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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 think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.
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I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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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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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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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 think it’s a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
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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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