I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINOThe 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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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