My strength is with actors. I think I'm good at working with them to get the best performances, at seeing what it is that they have and that the story needs.
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You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.
Interpretation
What this quote means
A wish for filmmakers to have strong moral values in their storytelling.
Sydney Pollack's quote reflects a hope for the film industry, emphasizing the importance of morality in filmmaking. He suggests that the narratives and messages conveyed through movies can significantly impact society, and thus, the responsibility of creating these stories should rest with those who possess ethical integrity.
Themes
MoralityFilmsResponsibilityStorytellingArt
In practice
Example use cases
During a film festival, discussing the importance of moral narratives in cinema.
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If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form.
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It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.
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Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.
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I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from.
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