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The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.
Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: July 1
Died: 2008
Died: May 26
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Sydney Irwin Pollack
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More quotes by Sydney Pollack
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
You are not an active creator of the film.
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.
Sydney Pollack
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.
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.
Sydney Pollack
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.
Sydney Pollack
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.
Sydney Pollack
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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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.
Sydney Pollack
Every single art form is involved in film, in a 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.
Sydney Pollack
What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.
Sydney Pollack
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.
Sydney Pollack
We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
Sydney Pollack
You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
Sydney Pollack
When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.
Sydney Pollack
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.
Sydney Pollack
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.
Sydney Pollack
I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
Sydney Pollack
I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
Sydney Pollack
