I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
Sidney PoitierI wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
Sidney PoitierI had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
Sidney PoitierBut perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came
Sidney Poitier