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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.

Al Pacino

The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.

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