Quotes by Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson

American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor

Lived from: 1942 -

Category: Movie | Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 6 april 1942

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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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  • 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.
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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 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.
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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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  • 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'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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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.
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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 Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
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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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  • You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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What are the most famous quotes from Barry Levinson?

The two most famous quotes from Barry Levinson are:

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

When did Barry Levinson live?

Barry Levinson is still alive and was born in 1942.