Sydney Pollack Quotes

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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.
• Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
• When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
• Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
• What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.
• 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…
• 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…
• If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.
• The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.
• By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal…
• Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and…
• But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
• I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
• Film is a collective experience, as you know.
• I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
• 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…
• And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
• Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
• No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
• 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…

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