All Sydney Pollack Quotes
You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
Sydney Pollack
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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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We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
Sydney Pollack
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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
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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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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
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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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Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Sydney Pollack in
Movies
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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 think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack in
Politics
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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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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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Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
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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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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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