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Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: July 1
Died: 2008
Died: May 26
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New York
Sydney Irwin Pollack
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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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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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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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I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.
Sydney Pollack
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 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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Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
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Film is a collective experience, as you know.
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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 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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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 tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.
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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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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
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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.
Sydney Pollack
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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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.
Sydney Pollack
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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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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