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“I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?” (Burton LeVar)
But it's a different language and rather than try to make it into film, let it be digital, let it be what it is. (Burton LeVar)
Did you know that I went out and played with Cal Ripken and the Iron Birds? When I read the script and Honus' information, I thought I better get in baseball shape, get my swing and start running the bases. (Burton LeVar)
For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to. (Burton LeVar)
Honus came out of the coal mines - shoveling, swinging an ax, sledgehammer. I think he and Ty Cobb both used that split grip. (Burton LeVar)
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction. (Burton LeVar)
“Two For The Money” (Burton LeVar)
“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” (Burton LeVar)
“[In the film, Matthew is Brandon Lane, a former college football player with a knack for sports betting.] The guy was a quarterback, no longer able to play football because he blows his knee out, ... He ends up running a tallying service. He's the best picker in the world, he has an 82% winning percentage -- unheard of in that field. It's a shady little business he's in, there's a lot of shadows.” (Burton LeVar)
And I loved Rocky. That was one of the first movies I saw when I thought, Wow! That would be a great job. (Burton LeVar)
I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter. (Burton LeVar)
“Look how much information we lost. We went from 500 pages to 120. When you're losing information, it's the details that make things really, really, cool I think. Unfortunately, you can't make a five-hour movie.” (Burton LeVar)
“Animated movies are really up my alley.” (Burton LeVar)
“Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.” (Burton LeVar)
“If I'm doing 'Scary Movie 12,' I'll have to consider myself pretty lucky. Just to be a working actor is still pretty thrilling to me.” (Burton LeVar)
“Unlike a movie, you kind of learn things about yourself every week, ... When you get a new script, you find out, oh, I was with the FBI, or oh, my father was this, or oh, this is where I grew up. They can make it up as they go along.” (Burton LeVar)
I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by. (Burton LeVar)
The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie. (Burton LeVar)
“There's the film that comes out in a public way that you see with the masses, that you go and publicly see and participate in a film, right? Then its reaction is a public reaction. Your opinion becomes part of that public reaction and is in some way, whether you like it or not, molded by that public reaction.” (Burton LeVar)
“I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.” (Burton LeVar)
“I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?” (Burton LeVar)
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