It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
BARRY LEVINSONThe 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 always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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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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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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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 think it’s a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
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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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I’ve had a lot of movies that didn’t get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.
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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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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 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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Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you’re always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason – not even pointing fingers, it just is.
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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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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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