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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.

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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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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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Either I act or I die.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.

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