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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

Al Pacino

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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 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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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