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I always go for the craft fir...

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 75 quotes

When you're shooting a featur...

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.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

This thing called chemistry, ...

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.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

It's my job to motivate the a...

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 75 quotes

For example, a man who might ...

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.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

With a movie you're creating ...

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 75 quotes

It doesn't matter what I'm do...

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!

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

I mean, the truth of the matt...

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.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

There will be people who are ...

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

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

By that I mean, I think that ...

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 75 quotes

Even with 'Three Days of the ...

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.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

I mean, certainly writing, pa...

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

I mean, certainly it's the si...

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.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

The problem with filming some...

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

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

Stars are like thoroughbreds....

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 75 quotes

If you have a career like min...

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.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

By the time I'm done with a p...

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.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

I do not have a good control ...

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.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

Each time I make a movie, it'...

Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these people that I don't necessarily have an answer to.

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

American movies are the most ...

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

Sydney Pollack 75 quotes

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