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" Stars are like thoroughbreds. Yes, it's a little more dangerous with them. They are more temperamental. You have to be careful because you can be thrown. But when they do what they do best - whatever it is that's made them a star - it's really exciting. "

Sydney Pollack

Star

You

Yes

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

Sydney Pollack

Becoming

Responsible

" If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years. "

" Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time. "

" 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

" 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 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. "

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

" For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it. "

Sydney Pollack

Obstacles

Love

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's no money in documentaries. "

Sydney Pollack

Documentaries

Money

" At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again. "

" Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. "

" Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism. "

" 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. "

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

Sydney Pollack

Romantic

Comedy

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

Sydney Pollack

Going

Know

" 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. "