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.
Sydney PollackRead
It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of inspiring belief and engagement in an audience.
Sydney Pollack highlights the role of a motivator or speaker in fostering a sense of belief and participation among the audience. The essence lies in encouraging individuals to set aside skepticism and become actively involved, thereby enhancing their experience and connection with the message being conveyed.
Themes
MotivationAudienceBeliefInvolvementEngagement
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech at a conference, I could use this quote to inspire participants to engage fully.
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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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You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.
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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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