Al Pacino Quotes, Directors Quotes, Alive Quotes

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

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I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

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It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

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On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

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I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

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I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

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