First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
BARRY LEVINSONStudios 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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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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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 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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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 don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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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 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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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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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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I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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 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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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that’s what ultimately works the best for me.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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