Al Pacino

Al Pacino in 2004

Alfredo James Pacino(bornApril 25,1940) is anAcademy Award-,Golden Globe-,Tony-,BAFTA-,Emmy- andScreen Actors Guild Awards-winningAmericanfilmand stage actor and director.

Quotes

Producing Off-Off-Broadway(2007)

• Off-Off-Broadway is absolutely necessary. It doesn't have to be sanctioned by the state, subsidized or anything. The plank and the passion is what it's about.

• You needfriends,especially in thetheatre,you need friends. You need people to interchange with, interface with, connect with. Together you’re going to make it, you’re going to do it together, you’re going to put it on, whatever it is.

• The greatest theatre that I experienced in my life wasThe Living Theatreand they were Off-Off-Broadway. And that was in the fifties.

Quotes about Pacino

• [Insomnia]’s a film that I look back on with great fondness. Working with Al Pacino,Robin WilliamsandHilary Swankwas an incredible experience. Sometimes, when people look for connections in your work, they look more at things like budget level than at the filmmaking itself. If you compare it toOppenheimer,for example, there’s a similar attempt to try and convey the subjective experience of the protagonist. In the case of Pacino’s character, he’s suffering from a distortion of perception due to lack ofsleep,and it’s not a million miles away from what I’m trying to do with showingOppenheimer’s internal process, particularly at the beginning of the film.
  • Christopher Nolan,as quoted inChristopher Nolan: a showman's odyssey,by James Bell, 14 February 2024,Sight and Soundmagazine, British Film Institute.