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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.

Barry Levinson

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.
BARRY LEVINSON

Interesting Looks Mistake
It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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Audience Hard Respond Ultimately
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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Business Hollywood Insider Satire Thinking
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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Fine Intimidation Network Sure
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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Embrace Film Thinking
As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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Digital Editing Made
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
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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Charming People President
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 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
There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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Downside Experience Much Too
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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Couple Exercise School
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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Achievement First
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
You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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Conclusion Satisfactory Want
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.
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Past Real Thinking

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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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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