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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Pacino

And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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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 was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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