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" If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human. "

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Sydney Pollack

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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. "

" By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. "

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

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

" Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman? "

" When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly what's going to happen. But with a documentary, you don't, so you have to be sensitive to accidents because that is where the gold is. "

" It's impossible for me to go into a room or look at a location without a part of my brain photographing it - picking the best angle or looking at the way the light hits. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everybody's trying to make blockbusters. "

" There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money. "

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

" In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama. "

Sydney Pollack

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

" You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself. "

" 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 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'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 have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I admire enormously - Adrian Lyne, Ridley Scott, Alan Parker - in which every shot has a great idea in them. "

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

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

" You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices. "

" I don't care much about acting. "

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