There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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’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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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