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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
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Sydney Pollack
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: July 1
Died: 2008
Died: May 26
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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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But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
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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 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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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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Film is a collective experience, as you know.
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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, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
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Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.
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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 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 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'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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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 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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