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" I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from. "

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" Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory. "

Sydney Pollack

New

Only

Anything

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. "

Sydney Pollack

Your

Hard

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

" 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

" If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture. "

" When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. "

" 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. "

" 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 mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else! "

" Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer. "

" I love having made a movie. "

" 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. "

" When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you. You want the actor to become completely independent and to understand all the emotional and psychological moves within the character. "

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

Sydney Pollack

Becoming

Responsible

" I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways. "

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

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

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

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