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Film is a collective experience, as you know.
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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Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
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Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
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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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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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But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
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You are not an active creator of the film.
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Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it's political. It happens to be political. But that's not why the sales of the DVDs are as high as they are. It's because it's an entertaining thriller. In my opinion, Tootsie is a very political movie but truck drivers can go and laugh at it.
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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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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
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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 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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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, 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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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