[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
AL PACINO[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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