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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.

Barry Sonnenfeld

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
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.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Black Celebrity Country Men Musician Popular Singer Told
The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Cutting Directors Thinking
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.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Day Little One Stars
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.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Cameramen Director Feeling Succeed
We should all relax about life because you don’t have a clue as to what’s really going on.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Clue Going Life Relax
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
I haven’t read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Film Reviews Years
I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Comedy Explain Learn Taught
They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Figure Laughing Skating Want
I’m an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Cutting Directors Finals
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
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.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Barely Graduate Kid Movie School Some
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
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 SONNENFELD

Director Laughing People Personality

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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