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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• 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

• Sydney Pollack:

  Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

• Sydney Pollack:

  I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost

• Sydney Pollack:

  Film is a collective experience, as you know.