I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things – worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
BARRY LEVINSONI got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
More Barry Levinson Quotes
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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 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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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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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 certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can’t truly define why something succeeds.
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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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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 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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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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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 thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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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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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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