Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
AL PACINOI’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from 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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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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