There’s no downside to having too much experience.
BARRY LEVINSONI 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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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I’ve not found that to be the situation.
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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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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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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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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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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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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I’m fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.
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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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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 always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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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 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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