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AL PACINOWhen I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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