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The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release.

Barry Sonnenfeld

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
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.
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Dream Fascination Growing Up
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
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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Cameramen Director Feeling Succeed
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.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Add Finish Movie Music Myself
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
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
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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Always Gun Joke Particular Sense The Audience
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
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept.
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Black Celebrity Country Men Musician Popular Singer Told
I haven’t read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Film Reviews Years
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.
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Good Reviews Things Wife
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 had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Comedy Explain Learn Taught
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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Attempt Hate Suicide Views
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

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