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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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