[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
ALAN ARKINYou can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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 you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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