I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
AL PACINOTake a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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