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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.

Barry Sonnenfeld

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
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
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
By definition a sequel can’t be original. So you’ve got to figure out what worked the first time around.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Definitions Figure Firsts Skating
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 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.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Cameramen Director Giving Make Move Moving Safety
It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Rehearsing Scar Scary
I don’t believe in leaving a scene in because it was really hard to shoot, or because it’s the reason you took the movie, or because you always wanted to work with an actor . . . If it’s not making the movie work, get rid of it.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Actors Believe Leave Leaving Scene
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 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.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Bunch Guy More Six Take Two Usually
I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Comedy Explain Learn Taught
It always happens at the end that you’re always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Ends Gun Happen Schedules
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 SONNENFELD

Done Editing Finishing Release Shoot
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.
BARRY SONNENFELD

Always Gun Joke Particular Sense The Audience
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
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

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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