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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie. ↗

— Al Pacino

#coppola #cut #days #did #directions

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#every #me #moment #surprises #turns

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me. ↗

— Al Pacino

#been #career #cope #coping #early

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#ballet #boy #heaven #help #talent

It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#discover #great #new #star #tomorrow

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like. ↗

— Al Pacino

#character #find #hard #like #me

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around. ↗

— Al Pacino

#around #because #early #fun #get

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument. ↗

— Al Pacino

#gift #good #having #instrument #jamie

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness. ↗

— Al Pacino

#cope #first #having #i #i have learned

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.' ↗

— Al Pacino

#plays #shakespeare #than #violent