Barry Levinson Quotes

 "There's no downside to having too much experience." ~ Barry Levinson

 "You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion." ~ Barry Levinson

 "A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect." ~ Barry Levinson

 "I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds." ~ Barry Levinson

 "You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen." ~ Barry Levinson

 "I would give the cameras to the kids in the swimming pools and they would play with them, and then I would collect them and we would upload it. If you're in the process, you're there." ~ Barry Levinson

 "No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate." ~ Barry Levinson

 "I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting." ~ Barry Levinson

 "Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera and we would up it to film." ~ Barry Levinson

 "As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital." ~ Barry Levinson

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

 "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

 "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 Levinson

 "First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct." ~ Barry Levinson

 "They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do." ~ Barry Levinson

 "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 Levinson

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

 "Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even pointing fingers, it just is." ~ Barry Levinson

 "I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became." ~ Barry Levinson

 "I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, "We're just the mayonnaise."" ~ Barry Levinson

 "I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all." ~ Barry Levinson

 "I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong." ~ Barry Levinson

 "I think it's a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we've seen in the past." ~ Barry Levinson

 "It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie." ~ Barry Levinson

 "We're never going to be the ultimate-insider look. You can do 50 insider looks at this Hollywood business, and the satire didn't intrigue me. I think others can do that." ~ Barry Levinson

 "I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level." ~ Barry Levinson