I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can’t truly define why something succeeds.
BARRY LEVINSONI 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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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 thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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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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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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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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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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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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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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 have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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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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