I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.
BARRY LEVINSONThey’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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I don’t know that you can do an absurdist film and just have everybody embrace it in terms of filling out cards. I just don’t think it happens. So you have to prepare an audience.
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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 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 think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it’s getting.
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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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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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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.
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I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.
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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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You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
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I think we are seeing a radical shift in the business in general. The studios are making much more of the real big extravaganzas and there are other kinds of films that are coming out. I think you are going to begin to see more diversification that we’ve seen in the past.
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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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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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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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It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
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