Barry Levinson Quotes

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

I never remember my parents having an argument.

It's so funny because when you're working with an acquaintance or someone else, you're being more polite. I find that I'm a little bit more of a brat when I'm in the studio with my dad, so I feel bad.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think, as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.

I wasn't a one-on-one type of guy.

I believe that communication is the key to a happy and successful family in our society.

My relationship with my father is fine. Every relationship has its ups and downs because bad things happen in all relationships. But for me, I can only write about what I'm feeling in the moment and something that actually happened to me.

The issue you have with two competitive guys being brought up the same way is that you don't have one person who goes out of his way to make a relationship.

You have to know how to co-operate with other people if you want to stay alive and raise children. And to do that, you need to know something about them. You need to know who loves whom, who hates whom, who is sleeping with whom. Who is honest, who is a cheat.

Dani's family are great, and I'm really lucky to have them as in-laws. But it's definitely not all plain sailing. They are such big characters who aren't scared to speak their mind, and we have different points of view at times, so we have to work through that.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.