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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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Sydney Pollack
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: July 1
Died: 2008
Died: May 26
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Television Director
New York City
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Sydney Irwin Pollack
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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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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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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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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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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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Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
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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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You are not an active creator of the film.
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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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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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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'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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Once I start to do a film, it has inferences. If a guy walks down a street and kicks a dog, you're saying something about that guy. A guy walks down the street and somebody's about to be run over and he shoves him out of his way and gets hit by the car himself, you're saying that guy's a hero. You can't avoid making certain statements.
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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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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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Film is a collective experience, as you know.
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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
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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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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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