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“He agreed with me. What I didn’t tell him was that I just couldn’t go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I’d had enough of the mumbo-jumbo. I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) to me.”
Alec tried hard to get George Lucas to kill off his ‘Star Wars’ character Obi-Wan-Kenobi
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Eravamo d'accordo, ma non gli avevo detto che non ce la facevo più a recitare quelle battute terribili e banali. Ero stanco delle chiacchiere senza senso. Ogni volta che qualcuno mi parla del film 'Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope' del 1977 ho un sussulto.
“Lubitsch's method of direction was perfect for me. He would act out the whole scene — and then he'd say, 'Now let's see how you'd do it.'”
“Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.”
“If a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.”
- La trovi in About Colleagues
“He's the apple of our eye. He's a fine actor, but he's starting to turn down acting work because he's about to become a director.”
“I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.”
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