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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Al Pacino

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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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