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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

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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 guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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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 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.

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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.

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