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.
BARRY SONNENFELDThese 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.
More Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes
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It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
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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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It always happens at the end that you’re always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.
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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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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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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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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.
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I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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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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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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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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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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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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