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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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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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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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The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.
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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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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 tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.
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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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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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You are not an active creator of the film.
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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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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, 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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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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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 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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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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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'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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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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