The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
AL PACINOThe 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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