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.
BARRY LEVINSONI 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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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 got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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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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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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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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There’s no downside to having too much experience.
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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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I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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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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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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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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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 thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, “We’re just the mayonnaise.”
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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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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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