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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

Al Pacino

At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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The 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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

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