Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
AL PACINOI 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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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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 feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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