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Barry Levinson

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

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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."

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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."

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"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."

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

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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 improvs."

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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."

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

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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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