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Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I’ve had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

Barry Sonnenfeld

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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Figure Laughing Skating Want
When you’re done shooting, the movie that you’re going to release when you’re done shooting is as bad as it will ever be.
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Done Editing Finishing Release Shoot
I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Comedy Explain Learn Taught
It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
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Rehearsing Scar Scary
When I move from being a cameraman to being a director I looked at a lot of other cameramen who tried to make the move. And in each case they moved up their camera operator to be the DP, which really meant they didn’t want to give up being the DP, and really wanted to do both.
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Cameramen Director Giving Make Move Moving Safety
It always happens at the end that you’re always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.
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Ends Gun Happen Schedules
I haven’t read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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Film Reviews Years
The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release.
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Cutting Directors Thinking
I’m an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
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Cutting Directors Finals
I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Good Reviews Things Wife
Anything I think isn’t working or might not work, I don’t even put it in the director’s cut. And usually it’s the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, “You got to lose 40 minutes,” they are always saying, “You’ve got to gain five minutes.”
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might Oppose Studious Stuff Suggest Work
Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he’s a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.
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Day Little One Stars
By definition a sequel can’t be original. So you’ve got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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Definitions Figure Firsts Skating
Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I’ve had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Dream Fascination Growing Up
These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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Barely Graduate Kid Movie School Some
And then through editing, and finishing the effects and adding music, you get to make the movie better again. So I’m really hard on myself and on the movie.
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Add Finish Movie Music Myself

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