The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with 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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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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