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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

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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Certainly Director Editor Fourty Language Make Movie Myself Pick Second Stuff Write Year
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Different Dream Imagine Realize Sometimes Start Thing Vision Word World
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
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Afterward Feel Gold Guess Medal Now Olympic Oscar Week Win
We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Ago Beach Coffee Hundred Ocean People Remember Saw Scarface
I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Concern Demand Different Go Movie Play
It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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Also Bizzare Childish Diabolical Drab Enrich Excite Illuminate Joyful Responsible
Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer
Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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After Dad Grandfather Maternal Mother Raise Real War
What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Failure Kind Misunderstood Other Yourself
A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Desire Dessert Dollop Kiss Lusty Passion Savor Serve
When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Great Happen Play Read Some Something Talk Writer
Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Believe Comedy Comic Myself People Saw Stand Start Tell Them Up
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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Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way
What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Do Else Endure Got Instrument Something Talent
Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Ability Detect Exceed Fraud Manufacture Reality Truth

[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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