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Barry Levinson Quotes

American - Director | April 6, 1922 -

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

Achievement Chance First Get Diner

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

Believe Fake Mystery You News Know

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.

Beginning Television Down Actor Show

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

You Things Happen Happen Things Then

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.

Family Think American Television New

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 Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

Time Sun Me Year Squad Everything

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

Situation Difficult Found Some Very

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.

Moments You Look Find Sometimes

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.

Time People Think Talking Finding

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.

Walk Interesting You Memorable Stay

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.

Me Think Thinking Talking Award You

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.

Chance House Television Hand Things

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