I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
AL PACINOShakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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