It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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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.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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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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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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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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