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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

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