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.
BARRY LEVINSONFirst of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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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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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.
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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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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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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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There was a time when I said, “I’m going to go do a television thing,” after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, “Television? Why are you going to go back to television?” It’s an interesting place.
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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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I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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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 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 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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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I’ve not found that to be the situation.
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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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