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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Barry Levinson

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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Documentary Fascinate Journey Long
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
BARRY LEVINSON

Anxiety Chance Country Film Person Two
As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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Digital Editing Made
I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.
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Appeal Palin Start Talk Thinking
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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Certain Happens Proven
Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I’ve not found that to be the situation.
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Actors Found Difficult
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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Past Shows Thinking
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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Actors Country Laughing United States
I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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All Always Bad Good Thinking
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.
BARRY LEVINSON

Film Interesting Television
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.
BARRY LEVINSON

Charming People President
I don’t know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It’s like doing Wag The Dog – we took a thing that was almost completely absurd on one level, and then ultimately those things came about.
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Crazy Dog Mean
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
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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Camera Digital Film
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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Couple Exercise School
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

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

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