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" Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.' "

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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. "

Sydney Pollack

Enough

Decisions

You

" Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. "

" 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. "

" The essence to me of all good drama is argument. "

" 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. "

" No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it. "

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

" I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. "

" 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. "

" From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do. "

" When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices. "

" 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. "

" I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life. "

" 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

" I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something. "

Sydney Pollack

Film

Want

" There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer. "

" If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years. "

" The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done. "

" 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. "

" I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory. "

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

" 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. "

" Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. "

Sydney Pollack

Becoming

Responsible

" I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part. "

" It's hard for me to fall in love with a piece of material enough to want to direct it. "

" I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is. "

" 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. "

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

" Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. "

" Stars are like thoroughbreds. Yes, it's a little more dangerous with them. They are more temperamental. You have to be careful because you can be thrown. But when they do what they do best - whatever it is that's made them a star - it's really exciting. "