First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
BARRY LEVINSONYou don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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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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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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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 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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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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’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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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 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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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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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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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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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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