Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
AL PACINOFrancis 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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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 didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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 do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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