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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
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Television Actor
Television Director
New York City
New York
Sydney Irwin Pollack
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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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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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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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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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I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.
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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 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.
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Film is a collective experience, as you know.
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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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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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What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.
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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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Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
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You are not an active creator of the film.
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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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It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.
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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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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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The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.
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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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