Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
ALAN ARKINA product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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Hollywood 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.
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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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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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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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