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" Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time. "
Sydney Pollack
Intense
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" 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. "
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" For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it. "
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" I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film. "
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" I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something. "
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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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You
" But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. "
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Mexico
" I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't rehearse the way a lot of directors do, to stage a scene in terms of manners and attitudes and lock them in. "
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" If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human. "
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" Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrating on the Faye Dunaway-Robert Redford relationship in that film. "
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Relationship
" There's no money in documentaries. "
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Money
" It's hard for me to fall in love with a piece of material enough to want to direct it. "
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" I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth. "
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" At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again. "
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Back
Stand
Never
" I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures. "
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Mean
World
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" The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling - and never get it back again. So I always try to roll the camera before anybody's really ready. "
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" 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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" Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle. "
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Really
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" I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance. "
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" I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. "
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" When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman. "
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" I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I feel in my head from a writer, and that's a... I don't have a recipe for that process. I don't know what it is... it's different every time. "
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" No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. "
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" American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific. "
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" If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years. "
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" Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.' "
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" I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now. "
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Now
Done
" With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. "
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Culture