I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
BARRY LEVINSONCraig 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 think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.
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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 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 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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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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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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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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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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I’ve had a lot of movies that didn’t get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.
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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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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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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting – you look for the behaviour that’s not the one you expect.
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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 it’s a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
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