I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.Sydney Pollack
I'm hands-on in areas where I can make a difference. There's no sense in me standing on set the director doesn't need me there.
Sydney Pollack
I'm making a plea for my colleagues and myself, who spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to tell you the story in the best possible way visually. And then someone else has to come in and cut the edges off of all that and pan and scan it. So you're not seeing what story we tried to tell you.
Sydney Pollack
The director is the teller of the film, the director tells the movie, like you would tell a story, except in this case you're telling a movie.
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
From my point of view I work just as hard, I care just as much, if the films fail it doesn't make me suddenly disown them, it just doesn't.
Sydney Pollack
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