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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.

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.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Sydney Pollack

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Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Sydney Pollack

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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.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

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