Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
ALAN ARKINAnd 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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Creativity 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.
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I 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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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