American - Director | July 1, 1934 - May 26, 2008
At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been in the trenches.
Sydney Pollack
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Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman?
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I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.
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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.
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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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I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
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And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
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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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Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
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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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You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
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