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.
More Barry Levinson Quotes
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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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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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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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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.
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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 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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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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