Alan J. Pakula Quotes

• I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

  Alan J. Pakula

  Passion, Careers, Trying

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• Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

  Alan J. Pakula

  Hands, Directors, Use

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• I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

  Alan J. Pakula

  Communication, Thinking, Giving

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• Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

  Alan J. Pakula

  Actors, Way, Certain

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