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.
AL PACINOMy 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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 probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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