Barry Levinson

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

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.

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.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.