I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature.
ALAN J. PAKULAI am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature.
ALAN J. PAKULAI like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will.
ALAN J. PAKULADirectors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors.
ALAN J. PAKULAI’ve hardly had an avant-garde career.
ALAN J. PAKULASo that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.
ALAN J. PAKULAThey don’t realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
ALAN J. PAKULASome actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.
ALAN J. PAKULAIf you’re going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you’re doing it for the first time.
ALAN J. PAKULA