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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."

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

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"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."
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"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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"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."
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"I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form."
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