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" 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. "

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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

" You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Everybody's trying to make blockbusters. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you. You want the actor to become completely independent and to understand all the emotional and psychological moves within the character. "

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

" I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated. "

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

Sydney Pollack

Becoming

Responsible

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

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

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

Sydney Pollack

I Am

Blake

" For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. "

" I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else. "

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

" 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. "