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.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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 found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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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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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