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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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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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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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You’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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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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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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 found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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