American - Director | July 1, 1934 - May 26, 2008
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.
Sydney Pollack
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There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic.
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If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form.
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I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend.
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I don't care much about acting.
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You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.
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I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.
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South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'
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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!
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From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.
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I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.
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I am not a visual innovator.
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