American actor (1934- )
I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.
ALAN ARKIN
interview, A.V. Club, Aug. 2, 2006
Whatever the pitfalls of the old studio system, and there were many, and they were run by egomaniacs just the same way they are now. But one of the things they did was they had a stable of actors that worked together all the time so you got the feeling when you saw the movies in the thirties and forties you were watching people that knew each other, that had some sense of communication even if it was hello--how are you in the commisary, or to get drunk together, or to go to the parties together, or to be in the mass photographing sessions they had. There was some sense of relationship. Now, I go to the movies and I don't feel like anybody knows each other. I feel like they've met that morning, and that they're going to rush back to their trailer in the middle of the afternoon, and there's no sense of community.
ALAN ARKIN
Futurist Radio Hour, Oct. 10, 1995
What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
ALAN ARKIN
Esquire, Mar. 2007