You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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Francis 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 went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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