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17 quotes by Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American screenwriter, Academy Award winning film director, actor, and producer of film and television. His most notable works include acclaimed films such as the comedy-drama Diner (1982), the sports drama The Natural (1984), the war-comedy Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), the crime drama Bugsy (1991), and the political black comedy Wag the Dog (1997). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for his...
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

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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 writer for the... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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.

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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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