There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it’s the closest I’ll ever come to being able to be a stand up.
BARRY SONNENFELDGrowing 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.
More Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes
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I haven’t read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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And my feeling was if I was going to succeed as a director, I had to just be a director and give up the safety net of being a cameraman.
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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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I’m not the one or two take guy, but I’m not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it’s usually for some technical reasons.
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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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The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release.
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We should all relax about life because you don’t have a clue as to what’s really going on.
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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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And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.
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It always happens at the end that you’re always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.
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The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.
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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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It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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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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