“Being an actor,” Duvall said near the end of his career, “You live an imaginary existence between ‘action’ and ‘cut’. When you live between those two words, you try to create something that’s from yourself, that’s alive, and legitimate and truthful.”
Any tally of the great film and small screen actors of our era undeniably includes him in the front rank, and he worked with some of the best of that elite group. Not only convincingly naturalistic onscreen, he bore a humility that made him perhaps the least self-mythologizing of the lot. His lack of pretension, reflected in performances that found power in subtlety, only added to the admiration of his peers and the public.
Consider his take on shooting the first two films…
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