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30 quotes by Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 21 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 films or shows, and produced over 44 films. Some of his best known works include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Absence of Malice (1981). His 1985 film Out of Africa won him Academy Awards for directing and...
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I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

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For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't 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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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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I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

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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... →

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Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

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And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

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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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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... →

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