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.
BARRY LEVINSONI 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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I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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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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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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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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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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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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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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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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As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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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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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 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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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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