Barry Levinson famous quotes

03-26-2025

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.
-- Barry Levinson

#Atmosphere #Trying #Behaviour
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

#Couple #School #Exercise
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

#Laughing #United States #Actors
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
-- Barry Levinson

#Certain #Prove It #Prove
Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
-- Barry Levinson

#Actors #Found #Difficult
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
-- Barry Levinson

#Achievement #Diners #Firsts
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
-- Barry Levinson

#Mistake #Interesting #Looks
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

#Intimidation #Intimidating #Fine
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

#Writing #Actors #Television
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

#Hands #House #Television
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
-- Barry Levinson

#Two #Anxiety #Chance
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

#Break Up #Thinking #Ideas
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.
-- Barry Levinson

#Memorable #Interesting #Way

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