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Sydney Pollack

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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


#architecture #art #art form #aspect #certainly

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.


— Sydney Pollack


#fingers #hard #i #kids #like

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


#i #like #matter #mean #much

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


#bed #come #get #go #hollywood

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


— Sydney Pollack


#i #less #means #my own #now

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.


— Sydney Pollack


#college #did #envied #i #never

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.


— Sydney Pollack


#experience #nature #novel #private #reading

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.


— Sydney Pollack


#film #make #reasons #sometimes #very

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.


— Sydney Pollack


#becomes #been #better #better man #having

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


#childhood #full #i #i was born #indiana






About Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack Quotes




Did you know about Sydney Pollack?

His 1985 film Out of Africa won him Academy Awards for directing and producing; he was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for They Shoot Horses Don't They? and Tootsie in the latter of which he also appeared. Pollack directed more than 21 films and 10 television shows acted in over 30 films or shows and produced over 44 films. His disputes with Hoffman during the filming of Tootsie became well-known.

His 1985 film Out of Africa won him Academy Awards for directing and producing; he was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for They Shoot Horses Don't They? and Tootsie in the latter of which he also appeared. His later films included Havana (1990) The Firm (1993) Sabrina (1995) The Interpreter (2005) and as producer for and actor in Michael Clayton (2007).

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