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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Al Pacino

The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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 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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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