I think we are seeing a radical shift in the business in general. The studios are making much more of the real big extravaganzas and there are other kinds of films that are coming out. I think you are going to begin to see more diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
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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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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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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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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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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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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