I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
BARRY SONNENFELDMichael 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.
More Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes
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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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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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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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The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release.
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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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I haven’t read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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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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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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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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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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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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It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
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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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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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