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David Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and
dramatically gripping.
I want to be inside Nic Pizzolatto's brain.
Quite often I reflect on the big house in Hollywood, on 'Midnight Confessions and on Ramon Novarro and on the fact that Roman Polanski and I are godparents to the same child, but writing has not yet helped me to see what it means.
'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.
Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.
I've never played anybody like a cop before.
Francis, I'd play the Godfather for you," he told the startled director. "I wouldn't do it for those guys at Paramount, but I'd do it for you.
I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.
I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.
I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.
The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep
Going After Cacciato
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People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.
In the crime novels, a PI is either an ex-cop or has some cop buddies who owed him a favor and who happily provided him with the department's files, while carrying on about how it could cost them their job. I had no cop buddies. I tried to avoid them as much as possible.
I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
the cop-friendly Sherma Barthlett as the on-call
I felt a little bad about killing the man, but what choice did I have?" ... Louie Morelli, "The Prince of Mafia Princes.
When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.
Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet ... he is very easy to work for.
Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.
Ignazio Michele Vitale," I say playfully, intentionally flubbing the middle name, just to get more of a rise out of him. "I can't believe you were singing a song from the eighties."
"You were seeing things.
Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.
I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.
Charley Davidson, Private Investigator, Because No One Is Better At Investigating Your Privates
Dominic Chocolate!!!
The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger.
PAUL RAKESTRAW, I SAID GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!
I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.
Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy.
The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.
His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman.
I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.
I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.
I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'
Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.
So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
Who you looking at-- Darren Shan
The Philadelphia Story, but
Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco.
William Hague, the world's favourite hairline.
London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the
I never really read a character before that I connected with more than Peeta. So, for me, if I couldn't get that job I was like, 'Well, if I can't play practically myself in a movie, what can I play?'
An actor should refine public taste.
Peter Principle
a brilliant and talented man promoted just one notch over his head.
I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
Dorkangelo" - Marc Hunter
In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.
So, have you seen Flood?" she asked. "Cop?" She added "cop" with a high pop on the p, like it was a punctuation mark, not a profession
... Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint.
My work is better, maybe all filmmakers are better, for Polanski's imprint on cinema. He created language for all of us to use, there is no question about that.
I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.
Mr. Pappadakis smells like Just for Men peroxide dye and eucalyptus foot unguents. He has a face like a catcher's mitt. The whole thing puckers inward, drooping with the memory of some dropped fly ball.
My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.
I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.
I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.
My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse." Kay, "What was that?" "Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father assured him that either his brains, or his signature, would be on the contract." - Michael Corleone The
If I was ever gonna remake a Peckinpah film, it would be 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.' That's my favorite Peckinpah film.
The Godfather has, maybe, one good scene.
Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.
which general has decided to betray Pracha.
Peter Parker - when
Concetta and Domenico Costa, Mariana Pontillo, the Arena family. We live.
I can't remember what Michael Praed looks like. I'm too young!
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.
Lorenzo Gambini, I presume? Or would you prefer to be called - "
"Sir," I cut in before he can say Scar. "You can call me sir, if it gives you the tingles. Otherwise, let's just stick with Gambini.
If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.
You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
And that was the voice of Peeta
SCARAMOUCHE Rafael
Breitenau." The first policeman
You take every salesman that walks into this shop at his word - why not Gianluca?
Acting ... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
The cultured cop! I thought they were peculiar to detective novels.
the gorgeous blonde with long legs and a body like a Playboy pin-up" Carla Ferrari, P.I.
Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.
This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.
I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.
I love Alfonso Cuaron.
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.
I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman.
Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.
I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.
Perry Johansson.
Cagliari central defender Comunardo Niccolai became celebrated for his ability to score bizarre own goals in the 1960s, so much that self inflicted problems in general are often referred to as 'Niccolai-like'.
I have the greatest respect for Tony Iommi.
Fricking son of a popcorn pimp!
Billy Crystal ... I crap bigger than him.
Berry," Pursley said, "you're in trouble, son. A cop. And an honest one. In trouble. In deep, spectacular, and, please, I have to say this, clearly heroic shit.
Orson Welles, who said to Anita Bryant, Stop picketing me. What I said was I was a thespian. Never got a dinner!
When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.
The part in 'Taxi' was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway.