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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 Sunday popcorn movies.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Childhood
Hiking
Indiana
Midwest
Popcorn
Raised
Saturday
Sunday
Weekend
Full
Specifically
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You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Crazy
Religious
Views
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It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else!
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Almost Anything
Directing
Producing
Something Else
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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 into film in some way.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Art
Dance
Architecture
Aspect
Film
Form
Mean
Painting
Photography
Writing
Almost
Art Form
Useful
Certainly
Some
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It's impossible for me to go into a room or look at a location without a part of my brain photographing it - picking the best angle or looking at the way the light hits.
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Film Director
Angle
Location
Photographing
Picking
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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.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Home
Bed
Hollywood
Night
Real
Real Life
Movie Set
Personally
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I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Creative People
Therapy
Uncomfortable
Unconscious
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It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Contest
Deadly
Egos
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It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Vacation
Concentration
Directing
Interferes
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Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Gun
Beginnings
High Point
Quick
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Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these people that I don't necessarily have an answer to.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Movie
Little Bit
Bit
Course
Each Time
Necessarily
Taking
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I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.
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Film Director
Eye
Film
World
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We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart.
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Film Director
Bounds
Human Heart
Leaps
Medically
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Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'
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Film Director
Aunt
Be A Man
Old Days
Charley
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I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.
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Age
Children
Numbers
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I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.
Sydney Pollack
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Jobs
Teacher
Views
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There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Ideas
Religious
Thinking
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I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else.
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Film Director
Honor
Schooling
Love Movies Parents
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I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I admire enormously - Adrian Lyne, Ridley Scott, Alan Parker - in which every shot has a great idea in them.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Great Idea
Stylist
Visual
Adrian
Great Myself Never
Alan
Parker
Ridley Scott
Scott
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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.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Art
Entertainment
Film
Form
Mean
Real
Single
Art Form
Biggest
Certainly
Event
Popular
Terms
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Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Jobs
Hollywood
Thinking
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The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling - and never get it back again. So I always try to roll the camera before anybody's really ready.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Rolling
Tragedy
Always Back Never
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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.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Fantasy
Frustrating
Mean
Mind
People
Your People Live
Anything Else
Your Live People
People Live Your
Frustrating Thing
Minds
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I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Decision
Order
People
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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. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Architecture
Extraordinary
One Time
Fits
Peripheral
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If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Feminine
Nurture
Traits
List
Qualities
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My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push.
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Film Director
Political
Trying
Views
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Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Conflict
Life Love Me
Life Love Always
Love Stories
Thriller
Two People
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Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Accepted
Shocked
Territory
Assumed
Languages
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At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.
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Film Director
Muscles
Always Feel Never
Fluke
Premiere
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I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't rehearse the way a lot of directors do, to stage a scene in terms of manners and attitudes and lock them in.
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Manners
Preparation
Attitudes
Lock
Patently
Rehearse
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This thing called chemistry, which I can't define and wouldn't know how to, either works or it doesn't. Sometimes a love story can involve very talented actors, but we are not invested emotionally in whether they end up together.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Chemistry
Love Story
Define
Talented
Emotionally
Invested
Involve
Talented Actors
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[Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together on that film. I found the best part of working with him to be the long conversations we had between set-ups.
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Film Director
Guy
Long
Years
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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 in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Bites
Creating
Focus Groups
Greater
Hero
Mean
Sound Bites
Thinking
Heroes
Illusions
Led
Mortal
Satisfy
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Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.
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Art
Girl
Practice
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When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you. You want the actor to become completely independent and to understand all the emotional and psychological moves within the character.
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Psychological
Rehearse
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There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.
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Hollywood
Purpose
Thinking
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When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Acting
Black And White
People
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All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.
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Film Director
War
Mean
Stars
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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 points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.
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Film Director
Frustrated
People
Views
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I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I feel in my head from a writer, and that's a... I don't have a recipe for that process. I don't know what it is... it's different every time.
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Film Director
Colour
Forced
Recipe
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Stars are like thoroughbreds. Yes, it's a little more dangerous with them. They are more temperamental. You have to be careful because you can be thrown. But when they do what they do best - whatever it is that's made them a star - it's really exciting.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Be Careful
Thrown
Temperamental
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I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.
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Lenses
Light
Vocabulary
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I see my job as trying to entertain you, to be balanced in some way, and morally responsible. I don't want to glorify a killer. I don't want to glorify a rapist. I don't want to do those things, but on the other hand I don't want to lecture to you, either.
Sydney Pollack
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Jobs
Hands
Trying
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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 what's going to happen. But with a documentary, you don't, so you have to be sensitive to accidents because that is where the gold is.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Accidents
Crew
Gold
Sensitive
Shooting
Documentary
Feature
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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.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Men
Abe
Charisma
Deserving
Enormous
Example
President
Years
Years Ago
Washington
For Example
George
Lincoln
Roosevelt
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Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Men
Light
Waiting Rooms
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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.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Art
Bits
Creating
Culture
Particular
Popular Culture
Accident
Popular
Rarely
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If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Architecture
Design
Cry
Looks
Moved
Optics
Photograph
Camera
Costume
Figure
Wearing
Involves
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For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Dependent
No Love
Obstacles
Love Done Me
Ended
Explain
Extremely
Logically
Love Stories
Reasons
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