If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
ALAN ARKINI played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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