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" 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. "

Sydney Pollack

People

Wonder

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Sydney Pollack

Your

Hard

" People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand, with Paul Newman, with Al Pacino, with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, you work with all these people. Isn't this a problem? And it isn't a problem at all. It's terrific. It's great fun. And I don't know what the answer is. "

Sydney Pollack

Fun

Great

" 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

" 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 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, 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. "

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

" 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. "

" What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from. "

" I am not a visual innovator. "

Sydney Pollack

I Am

Innovator

" 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. "

" You have to go by your instincts in casting. "

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

Sydney Pollack

I Am

Blake