Before 'M*A*SH*,' people in the industry didn't know what to do with this guy with the big nose.

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• Jamie Farr:

  I would like to do a nice comedy/drama feature with a good part, but nobody's asked me to do a film

• Sydney Pollack:

  I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday a

• Sydney Pollack:

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

• Sydney Pollack:

  And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending

• Sydney Pollack:

  No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

• Sydney Pollack:

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

• Sydney Pollack:

  You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's i

• Sydney Pollack:

  You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. T

• Sydney Pollack:

  With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art

• Sydney Pollack:

  I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art