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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.

Al Pacino

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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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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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