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" 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. "

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" American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific. "

Sydney Pollack

Quality

American

True

" You can't stop traffic on Times Square. "

" I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster. "

" I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. "

" I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring. "

" I don't care much about acting. "

" By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently. "

" I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid. "

" It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem. "

" I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality. "

" I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them. "

" 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. "

" 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 isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie. "

" It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again. "

" 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

" You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people. "

" No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. "

" I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility. "

" Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy. "

" We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart. "

" The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. "

" 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. "

" There's no money in documentaries. "

Sydney Pollack

Documentaries

Money

" 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. "

" Film is a collective experience, as you know. "

" I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. "

" I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. "

" You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie. "

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