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.
AL PACINOIt was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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