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I'm not trying to push my pol...

I'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a party or candidate I believe in. I don't mind going out and endorsing somebody I believe in. But when we're talking about my films, I don't think my politics should have anything to do with it.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

I don't consider myself a tea...

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

It's always interesting to pl...

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

I'm not going to be an interp...

I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

All films are political, whet...

All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

When you spend your life acti...

When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

Most human beings who are acc...

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

There isn't any question that...

There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

One wants to be able to exper...

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

I'm not a very good predictor...

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

Most human beings who are acc...

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

You're fighting a losing batt...

You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

I do have a responsibility, b...

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

Audiences want to feel someth...

Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

People ask me over and over h...

People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand, with Paul Newman, with Al Pacino, with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, you work with all these people. Isn't this a problem? And it isn't a problem at all. It's terrific. It's great fun. And I don't know what the answer is.

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For reasons which I can't log...

For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.

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I learned everything, right o...

I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else.

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Depicting a terrorist act in ...

Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.

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I hate to say it as a pejorat...

I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

I don't particularly want to ...

I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

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