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Sydney Pollack

"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."

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"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."

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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."

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"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."

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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

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"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."

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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

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"There's not a lot of good movies being made."

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"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."

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Amber Hurdle

"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

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Amber Hurdle

"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."

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"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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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."
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"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure."
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"Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie."
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"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business."
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