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’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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 used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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