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.
AL PACINOShakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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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 can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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