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Al Pacino revealed he never had a choice to play Michael Corleone. "At that time in my life, I didn't have a choice. Francis wanted me. I had made the one film. And I wasn't as interested in film to the extent that I became interested. My head was in another space. I felt out of place in the early films that I made. I remember saying to my friend Charlie [his mentor, the acting teacher Charlie Laughton]: Wow, they talk about it being real, but meanwhile it's not. Because there are wires all over you. And also, you've got to do it again! [Laughs] You do it and they say, well, go again, do it again. It's real and not real at the same time. Which takes some getting used to." In a separate interview, director Francis Ford Coppola said that when he read The Godfather book, he kept imagining Al Pacino in the part--he never had a second choice for who to cast. As Pacino recalls, "I got a call from Francis Coppola -- a name from the past. First, he says he's going to be directing The Godfather. I thought, well, he might be going through a mini-breakdown or something. How did they give him The Godfather?" He continues, "I've got to tell you, it was a big deal already. It was a big book. When you're an actor, you don't even put your eyes on those things. They don't exist for you. You're in a certain place in your life where you're not going to be accepted in those big films -- not yet, at least." But back to Coppola, Pacino tells the Times, laughing, "He said, not only was he directing it, but he wanted me to do it. I'm sorry, I don't mean to laugh here. It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, what train am I on? OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael. I thought, OK, I'll go along with this. I said, yes, Francis, good. You know how they talk to you when you're slipping? They say, 'Yes! Of course! Yes!' But he wasn't. It was the truth. And then I was given the part."

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