All Sydney Pollack Quotes
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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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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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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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
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I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
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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 don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
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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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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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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
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Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
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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 that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.
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Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
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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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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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