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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. "

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" It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement. "

Sydney Pollack

Audience

Believe

Favor

" I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part. "

" 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. "

" The essence to me of all good drama is argument. "

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

" 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. "

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

Sydney Pollack

I Am

Blake

" You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it. "

" 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

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

" Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle. "

" Kubrick and I were pretty good friends. "

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

" 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. "

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

Sydney Pollack

Going

Know

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I love having made a movie. "

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

" Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrating on the Faye Dunaway-Robert Redford relationship in that film. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "