Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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.
Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
![Al Pacino Quote - Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/here-in-these-films-salome-the-play-and-salomaybe--683x1024.jpg)
![Al Pacino Quote - Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/many-years-ago-in-the-late-70s-i-toured-colleges-a-683x1024.jpg)
