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.
BARRY LEVINSONIt’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 think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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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’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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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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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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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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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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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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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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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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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 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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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The 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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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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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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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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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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I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.
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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 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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