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  • Film Director
  • 1928 - 1998
  • 7 quotes

Alan J. Pakula, Film Director (1928 - 1998), is quoted 7 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Actors, Certain, Way and Certain Way.

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

A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions.

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

Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fight for our freedom, we don't have a sense of injustice.

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.

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.

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.

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