Barry Levinson Quotes

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• When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of…
• I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House…
• I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a…
• They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.
• A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
• First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
• Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
• You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
• Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and…
• I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and…
• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in…
• All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free…
• Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a…
• Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that…
• I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you…
• It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone,…
• It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that…

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