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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
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Television Actor
Television Director
New York City
New York
Sydney Irwin Pollack
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More quotes by Sydney Pollack
You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.
Sydney Pollack
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
Sydney Pollack
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.
Sydney Pollack
I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.
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.
Sydney Pollack
Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.
Sydney Pollack
You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
Sydney Pollack
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.
Sydney Pollack
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
OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.
Sydney Pollack
I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
Sydney Pollack
Film is a collective experience, as you know.
Sydney Pollack
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.
Sydney Pollack
What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.
Sydney Pollack
I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.
Sydney Pollack
I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.
Sydney Pollack
I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.
Sydney Pollack
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
Sydney Pollack
I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.
Sydney Pollack
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.
Sydney Pollack
