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" The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling - and never get it back again. So I always try to roll the camera before anybody's really ready. "

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" With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. "

Sydney Pollack

Movies

Work

Culture

" I don't care much about acting. "

" 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. "

" Film is a collective experience, as you know. "

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

" You can't stop traffic on Times Square. "

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

" 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! "

" You have to go by your instincts in casting. "

" 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 don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. "

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

" I love having made a movie. "

" And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. "

Sydney Pollack

Knowing

Real

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in. "

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

" Kubrick and I were pretty good friends. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people. "

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

" 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 don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something. "

Sydney Pollack

Film

Want