Bend Quote by Sydney Pollack

“South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'”

Sydney Pollack

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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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It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

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The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

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Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

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People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly…

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What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space.…

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I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard.

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You are not an active creator of the film.

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My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

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I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

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I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets…

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I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend…

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I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with…

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