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" I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I feel in my head from a writer, and that's a... I don't have a recipe for that process. I don't know what it is... it's different every time. "

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" 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. "

Sydney Pollack

Politics

Political

Think

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

" We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman. "

" I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film. "

" There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie. "

" Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I don't care much about acting. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman. "

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

" What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time. "

" I am not a visual innovator. "

Sydney Pollack

I Am

Innovator

" I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way We Were' and Jeremiah Johnson. He is this ultimate individualist. "

Sydney Pollack

Always

Ultimate

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's no money in documentaries. "

Sydney Pollack

Documentaries

Money

" It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money. "

" I love having made a movie. "

" 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. "

" No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. "

" 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. "

" 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 always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't. "

Sydney Pollack

Always

Craft