All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that’s what ultimately works the best for me.
BARRY LEVINSONNo one really has the power, and everybody’s trying to get through the day, and everybody’s nervous and desperate.
More Barry Levinson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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 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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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I’ve not found that to be the situation.
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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 thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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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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The interesting thing about movies, it’s not always – y’know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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