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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Sydney Pollack

Film

You

Think

" I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend. "

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

" I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else. "

" I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor. "

" Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.' "

" But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.' "

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

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

" All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested 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. "

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

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

" You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it. "

" 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 marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype. "

" 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 don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on. "

" 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. "

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

" You are not an active creator of the film. "

" 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'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. "

" It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement. "