I think it’s a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
BARRY LEVINSONI got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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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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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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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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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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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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