Barry Levinson quotes
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“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 then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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“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 you would do improvs.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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“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 we used to get laughs and things.”
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“You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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“Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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“First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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“A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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“They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : "'Bedford' trimmed to skirt FCC". Associated Press, articles.latimes.com. March 25, 2006.
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“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 writer on a television show.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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“I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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“I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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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 the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.”
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“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 many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.”
-- Barry LevinsonSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
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