I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOI’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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.
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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