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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.

Al Pacino

To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.

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