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Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: July 1
Died: 2008
Died: May 26
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Aircraft Pilot
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Film Actor
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Television Director
New York City
New York
Sydney Irwin Pollack
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You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
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When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.
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Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
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Film is a collective experience, as you know.
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I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.
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By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
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It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.
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OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.
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I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
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The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.
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I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.
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I'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a party or candidate I believe in. I don't mind going out and endorsing somebody I believe in. But when we're talking about my films, I don't think my politics should have anything to do with it.
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You are not an active creator of the film.
Sydney Pollack
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
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What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.
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Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.
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I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.
Sydney Pollack
I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.
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I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
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When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.
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