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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
Sydney Pollack

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Sydney Pollack

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.
Sydney Pollack

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

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

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.
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Become, Business, I Think, Politics, Shame, Show, Show Business, Terrible, Think

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Become, Business, Politics, Shame, Show, Terrible, Think