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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?

Al Pacino

We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Charlatan Experience Feel Long People Play Scene Stuff Way
I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Film First Lot Made Movie One Time Turn
I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Award Bad Feel Good Make Pretty Win
Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Alone Director Forgot Represent Stand Surf Wait
I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Better Done Get Much Naturally Shy Think
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Audition Only Sometimes Way
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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After Army Become College Dad Education Insurance Salesman War World
“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Always Catch Do Sleep Try
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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Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
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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Certainly Director Editor Fourty Language Make Movie Myself Pick Second Stuff Write Year
To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Country Obvious Really Shoulder Somebody Something Strap Throw
I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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Being Celebrity Country Kind never Position Thing Unnatural Weight Word
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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Ago Beach Coffee Hundred Ocean People Remember Saw Scarface
I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Actor More Often Said Shy Two Type
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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Act Always Comedy Country Felt Help More Movie Much Style
I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Interest Interview Much Part Want Well

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