Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
AL PACINOYou’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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