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Sydney Pollack

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

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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."

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Donna Grant

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?"

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Sydney Pollack
"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."

Acting

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

People

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

Creativity

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Sydney Pollack
"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."

Art

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Sydney Pollack
"You are not an active creator of the film."

Film

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

Failure

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Sydney Pollack
"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."

People

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

Movies

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Sydney Pollack
"Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie."

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Sydney Pollack
"But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood."

Diversity

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