Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
ALAN ARKINCatch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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