The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.