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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.

Barry Levinson

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
BARRY LEVINSON

All Always Bad Good Thinking
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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Documentary Fascinate Journey Long
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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Desperate Nervous Trying
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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Kids Playing Swimming
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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Looks Size Truck Wrong
I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.
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Appeal Palin Start Talk Thinking
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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Decision Happen Reason Sometimes
It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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Audience Hard Respond Ultimately
As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.
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Digital Editing Made
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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Certain Happens Proven
I think it’s a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
BARRY LEVINSON

Past Shows Thinking
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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Interesting Memorable Way
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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Fine Intimidation Network Sure
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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Crazy Dog Mean
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.
BARRY LEVINSON

Film Interesting Television
You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
BARRY LEVINSON

Conclusion Satisfactory Want

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