Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
ALAN ARKINIf I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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 believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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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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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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