I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
My first language was shy. Its only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image