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Sydney Pollack

"I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor."

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

Movies

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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
"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."

Movies

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

Nature

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Sydney Pollack
"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."

Home

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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
"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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Sydney Pollack
"I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people."

People

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Sydney Pollack
"You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie."

Art

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