Al Pacino Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.

  Al Pacino

  Soul, Cameras, Faces

• 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

  Movie, Cutting, Play

• I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

  Al Pacino

  Believe, Writing, Character

• I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

  Al Pacino

  Firsts, Film, Made

  Source: members.tripod.com

• You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

  Al Pacino

  Over You, Together, Film

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

• I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.

  Al Pacino

  Play, Different, Demand

  Source: members.tripod.com

• 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.

  Al Pacino

  Home, College, People

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

• Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.

  Al Pacino

  Opportunity, Play, Challenges

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• [Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

  Al Pacino

  Four, Film, Wanted

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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