Sam Levinson Quotes

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I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place

I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it’s often turned into anger or frustration.
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When we go to the cinema, we bring all of our preconceptions of actors with us.
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As a child I’m sure I was no different from any other human being struggling to navigate the difficulties and complexities of their childhood and adolescent years. I feel it’s a time when all of us need an escape, a place where we can leave the world behind and just disappear. For me, it was film.
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I think what’s different about this time is that at least pre-Internet there were more similarities between one generation and the next. And now, I think that gap has grown in a very significant way.
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For me, there’s far too many close-ups in film. They’re a television technique.
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I studied method acting for four years and I’m a big believer in the idea that it’s not about the actual experience itself. You don’t have to go through exactly what this character has gone through.
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The way that I deal with actors as a director is I just talk to them forever before we even arrive on set.
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To put it simply, I’m not interested in making comfortable films, and I don’t want to crush the audience‘s imagination. I want them to feel like they might have missed something.
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Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that love you.
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I’m writing, I’m directing, I’m editing, I’m mixing, I’m showrunning. There is a certain point where it’s like, the work is the work.
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I don’t design stories to fit some political ideology. I design stories about characters who I love and care about, while trying to make sense of an increasingly mad and toxic and insane world.
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I remember John Waters‘s ‘Pink Flamingos,’ that was the film where I realized you could do anything you want – there were no boundaries.
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I don’t want to make a comfortable film. I’m not interested in that. I’m not interested in answering people’s questions; I’m interested in posing questions. I’m interested in sparking a conversation between two people about what something means. That’s enough for me, as a writer and as a director.
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Sometimes you can just have a dialogue with an actor beforehand and shape the performance then, but other actors need more guidance on the set.
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I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember.
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I’ve always wanted to write, I’ve always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.
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I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it’s doing. I start with the characters and their inner lives.
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I don’t really outline. I just kind of know where I’m going in my head, so I’ll write and discover it for myself. Or I’ll just write an entire episode and throw it out because I land on an idea and realize that’s where I should jump off from.
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I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience’s imagination.
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I spent the majority of my teenage years in hospitals, rehabs and halfway houses.
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I can’t wake up every day and not thank Sundance. They’re a great beacon of light for any independent film. Just to have a film that you made shown on a screen for an audience in a theater is beyond me, so I owe them everything in the world.
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I am always curious to sit down with the actor who’s playing the part after the casting process and get to know them, get to understand their life a little bit more.
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There’s always certain actors that are interested in certain things and other actors who aren’t.
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Everything is spectacle. Everything is entertainment, whether it’s shame, invasion of privacy, abuse, no matter what it is it’s become almost a sporting event. It’s like the new Roman Coliseum in a way.
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But we’re not this one stupid thing we said three years ago, or ten years ago, or even last week. We seem to judge people as if they are.
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