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Sydney Pollack Quotes

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1934 - May 26, 2008

Topics

Enough Movies Wonderful Well Making

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

Joey Lauren Adams

Funny Voice Blonde Person Connect

'Matilda' is my favorite movie of all time. It's so funny. It's about this girl who's so independent and smart, and she has to learn how to get through all these challenges she faces, and she gets through them all so well.

Funny Girl Time Smart Challenges

When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was called 'American Hollow,' which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival.

Women American First Film Made Did

The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.

Children Food Eating Behavior Bad

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

Weird Movies Way Hear Ear Actually

What I do is a little bigger than traditional country. I've been belting all my life, so I fit right in with the musical-theater style.

Life Style My Life Country Right

I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too.

Dreams Generation Say Kind Personal

To be honest, I'm looking at today's game, and I put myself in that position and how I would benefit from the faster basketball, more threes, catch-and-go opportunities, attacking the paint with more space, that's what kind of gets me juiced up and riled up when I watch today's game.

Today Myself Space Me Looking Game

I love Marcel Wanders.

Love I Love Marcel

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Coffin

Passion Hope Nothing Possible Else

What satisfies me most are those nonverbal moments with players, when I sense them thinking and responding. And I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' Hollywood gives us the money to do this. I want to be grateful for that, and I also don't want to waste it.

Money Grateful Amazing Me Thinking

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Life School You Lesson Test Taught

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