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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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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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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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Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.
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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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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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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.
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Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
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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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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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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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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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Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
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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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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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You are not an active creator of the film.
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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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It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.
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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.
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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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