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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.

Al Pacino

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Doubt Event Life Self Unwelcome
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 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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Baby Country Feeling Little Paper Poem Something Spectacular Throw Wrote
At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Audition Career Children Deal Humble Other Point Rejection Thing
Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Afterward Express Question Read Talk Therapeutic Time
I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Discourage Encourage Idea Own Real Way
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
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
You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Alone Book Got never
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.
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Extent Feeling Prefer Show Some Thought Time
When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Act Back Camera Give Keep never Talk When
You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Agree Conversation Crazy Everybody Hear Something Tell Totally Want
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Build Camera Capture Face Movie Soul
I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Ebnergy Fairty Go Happu Kid Kind Life With
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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Artist Interest Play Thing Vision Yet
Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer

[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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[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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