Happy accidents

Lucky or not, we were the ones that were chosen. Once again, how many golden raspberries was the film nominated for? Three. And how many golden raspberries did the film win? We didn't win any, but that's OK. We can enter again and see if we have a shot. They got to make Leonard Part 6.

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with everything that had happened to them throughout the film. But in the editing, they decided to put these little pranks in the middle because they felt like the kids might get bored. And to this day, kids, I mean, child viewing audience. To this day, it concerns me when studios come in and the editing department or the marketing department says, no, the original story isn't going to fly. Well, we don't know that. You know, it's narrative. And when we sign on to a project...

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Barry Levinson

The who's on first routine actually happened by accident. Dustin originally has written in the script there was...

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Barry Levinson

This sequence, we got lucky in that when we went back to Cincinnati to shoot the scene when they were walking around the Buick, the light was so...

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I know from my own experience that you do sometimes dream of ill-formed figures, faces that are not... You dream of puppets. I felt they were dreams. But the intensity of Whitley's experience is what impressed me. I don't have any doubt that something happened to him. I don't know what it is. Neither do I. And when you talk to Whitley and when he describes these kinds of experiences...

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Well, Whitley, I think, is lucky in many respects, but certainly in as much as he's a writer, he can write this stuff, he can get rid of these demons, if that's what they are. But then, of course, there are a whole lot of other people who can't and who are living with these psychological issues. And I just have to wonder where all that's going to go if...

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John Mackenzie

Oh, come on, I'm curious. We had this done the day before the scene was quite difficult to get sugar glass bottles in those days. The idea was that he would kill Jeff inadvertently in a temper, hit a vein by accident, and that Jeff would die. And it seemed to me then that would be more in character with the sort of type of guy Shand was. To deliver money, I mean, to Belfast.

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Jim Piddock

fortuitous connections in one way or another. This one, because I happened to be at the preview of its original. Or take the Hidden Life series, My Vida Secreta, the Mexican films. Really, quite the stuff. And I just stumbled on them. I happened to be in Tijuana. If you're in Los Angeles, you can vacation there quite reasonably. And I saw this little street urchin setting fire to stray dogs. Well, not setting fire to the dogs. He had...

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Anyway, don't forget, you said this film was bookended by this therapy session, but don't you remember that there wasn't one at the end? No, we had to shoot it. We had a preview in Chicago. No, San Francisco. San Francisco, right. And the audience wondered what happened to the characters, the two main characters, and we said, well, that's not really the point of the movie, but since it seemed to squash some of their enjoyment, we thought, well, no, I mean...

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but we didn't show Red Dog himself. We just ran out of time. And we were running out of time constantly. So I think we're extraordinarily lucky with the crew that I had to get the set-ups that we managed to get. Yeah, well, the interesting thing about this film, I think, is that it's narratively ambitious, conceptually ambitious, visually ambitious. So, you know, and all on a...

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John McTiernan

One stunt double for Arnold, he had hurt his knee. I think we were pretty lucky, we didn't...

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