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Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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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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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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You are not an active creator of the film.
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There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money the only purpose it still has is to make money.
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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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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 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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It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.
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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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We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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.
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Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
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