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 somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right. Barry Levinson Read Quote
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, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree. Barry Levinson Read Quote
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 just think that it’s Hollywood stuff or whatever. Barry Levinson Read Quote
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 Levinson Read Quote
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. Barry Levinson Read Quote
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. Barry Levinson Read Quote
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 high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it’s going to be one of those really silly movies and that’s how it got made. Barry Levinson Read Quote
It gets harder and harder to make movies about human beings. These movies are like an endangered species. Everything is ‘simplify, simplify’ now. How many movies have sub-plots anymore? Barry Levinson Read Quote
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. Barry Levinson Read Quote
Wag’ is not some kind of documentary; it’s just looking at the tools that are available. Now you’ve got more tools – you’ve got social media – and just post stories through all types of back channels that can get some traction. Barry Levinson Read Quote