That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
ALAN ARKINThat’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
ALAN ARKINCreativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
ALAN ARKINCatch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKINMarriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
ALAN ARKINIs it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
ALAN ARKINHollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
ALAN ARKINA product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
ALAN ARKINI had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
ALAN ARKINI don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
ALAN ARKINThings are never going to turn out how you think they will.
ALAN ARKINI had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
ALAN ARKINI don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
ALAN ARKINEvery physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
ALAN ARKINYou can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
ALAN ARKINI’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
ALAN ARKINI see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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