Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
ALAN ARKINI see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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