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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.

Barry Levinson

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
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 thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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Happened Line Mayonnaise Movie Thought
They’re intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can’t do.
BARRY LEVINSON

Fine Intimidation Network Sure
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
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.
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Hands House Television
It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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Audience Hard Respond Ultimately
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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Human Human Relationships Kind Relations
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.
BARRY LEVINSON

Embrace Film Thinking
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.
BARRY LEVINSON

Interesting Memorable Way
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
BARRY LEVINSON

Achievement First
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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Magic Succeed Thinking
There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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Downside Experience Much Too
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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Looks Size Truck Wrong
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.
BARRY LEVINSON

Crazy Dog Mean
As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
BARRY LEVINSON

Digital Editing Made

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