I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.
BARRY LEVINSONYou have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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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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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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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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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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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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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 thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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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 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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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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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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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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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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