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" 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. "

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" Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently. "

Sydney Pollack

Love

Life

" 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. "

" Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle. "

" Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies. "

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

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

Sydney Pollack

Going

Know

" I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life. "

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

" I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman. "

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

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

" 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! "

" There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways. "

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

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

" I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor. "

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

" It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem. "

" 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. "

" From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do. "

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