I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
AL PACINOHere in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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 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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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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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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 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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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