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 LEVINSONNo 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’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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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.
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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 always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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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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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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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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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I’ve not found that to be the situation.
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