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" 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! "

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" The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done. "

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

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

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

" I'm not going to pretend to know one more thing than I know. "

Sydney Pollack

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" I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes. "

" 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. "

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

" At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been in the trenches. "

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

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

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

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Becoming

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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. "

" 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

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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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces. "

" 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. "

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

" This thing called chemistry, which I can't define and wouldn't know how to, either works or it doesn't. Sometimes a love story can involve very talented actors, but we are not invested emotionally in whether they end up together. "