I’ve had people ask me: ‘How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?’ What they don’t understand is that I’m in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who’s on screen. I’m not judging them one way or another.
BENICIO DEL TORORegarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It’s part of acting.
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There’s a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
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License to Kill’ is not one of the great Bond movies.
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I’m not saying I’m a writer, but I’ve been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
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I’ve done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it’s great, and then you see it and it doesn’t work.
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My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I’m at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
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It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don’t know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it’s a great feeling.
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Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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I’m not Jack Nicholson. I’m not Brando. But I do mumble.
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Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That’s probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.
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To me the thing with ‘Grease’ was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
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You deal with failure – strike, strike, strike – all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in a way – your hair is too dark, you’re too ugly for the part, your audition wasn’t good.
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I’m a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
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My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
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You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don’t think anyone is born bad.
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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