I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
AL PACINOFrancis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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