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.
BARRY LEVINSONThey’re intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can’t do.
More Barry Levinson Quotes
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Ronald Reagan was this actor who was going to be president, and he was very charming. What he had was, he talked about America in ways that got people all caught up in it. He was creating this America – it could even be the mythical “America” – that we subscribe to.
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Even back in the ’90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn’t digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera and we would up it to film.
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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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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things – worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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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 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 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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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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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’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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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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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 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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