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" Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick. "

Sydney Pollack

Gun

Fast

You

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Sydney Pollack

I Am

Innovator

" Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism. "

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" Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these people that I don't necessarily have an answer to. "

Sydney Pollack

People

Time

" There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic. "

" Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently. "

Sydney Pollack

Love

Life

" I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards. "

Sydney Pollack

I Am

Blake

" And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. "

Sydney Pollack

Knowing

Real

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle. "