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.
AL PACINO[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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