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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.

Al Pacino

Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Great Maybe Script Some Something Television
[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Being Close Do Everything Kid Next Them
It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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Also Bizzare Childish Diabolical Drab Enrich Excite Illuminate Joyful Responsible
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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Failure Kind Misunderstood Other Yourself
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Alive Anywhere Else More Street Take Theater
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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Age Artist Day Hate One Painter Question
There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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