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What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.
Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: July 1
Died: 2008
Died: May 26
Actor
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 don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
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I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.
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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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Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
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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'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.
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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
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I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
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You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.
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Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
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Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
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