Al Pacino谈Robert De Niro

PB: Kael wrote, “Pacino’s poker face and offhand fast throwaways keep the character remote.”
Pacino: Are you kidding me or what? Why was she pissed at me, I wonder? Sometimes the things that piss people off …Well, I pissmyself off, too sometimes. When I’ve seen myself onscreen from time to time, I’ve said, “Who does he think he is, smirking like that?”Or, “Why doesn’t he take a bath?” But that film seemed pretty good to me.
PB: What other films seem pretty good to you?
Pacino: Bang the Drum Slowly is my all-time favorite film. I saw that three or four times. I’d like to go see it again. The baseball motif, the quality of the relationship between Moriarity and De Niro, is beautiful. Maybe I relate to it because I wanted to be a baseball player. For some reason, people don’t talk about that movie.
PB: You and De Niro are friends, aren’t you?
Pacino: Yeah, I know Bobby pretty well. He’s a friend. He and I have gone through similar things. There was a period in my life when it was very important that I get together with somebody I could identify with.
PB: Those must have been strange conversations, since neither of you is very talkative. How did you communicate at first?
Pacino: Sign language.
PB: That’s probably what the press would have to do to interview him.
Pacino: He’s always very quiet, it’s an inherent thing. He’s really honest about that. I think that the press respects that. They don’t push him. He does talk with me, though.
PB: Do you see any similarities between you and De Niro professionally?
Pacino: I can only judge by what I see on film. I don’t see similarities between me and Bobby. The same thing with Dustin; I don’t see it, although I think he’s great.
看他访谈要有趣油滑得多……Bob三分之二的时间都在神经紧张/差点发火/坚决不评论别人/‘那随便你想，反正我不承认’，开始是挺有趣，但是时间一长了，读着都跟着他觉得焦虑。