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Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
American Director
Born: Jul 1, 1934
Died: May 26, 2008
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Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
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. Sydney Pollack
Great Way Would Shakes Knew Looked Friend Any Going Jerk Actor Play Soda
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
Matter Wish Else Something Something Else Directing Almost Almost Anything Doing Anything Anything Else Producing
From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do. Sydney Pollack
Time First Stage Knew Stepped Almost First Time Wanted
I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film. Sydney Pollack
Broken New Any Form Ground Film
My strength is with actors. I think I'm good at working with them to get the best performances, at seeing what it is that they have and that the story needs. Sydney Pollack
Best Good Strength Needs Think Seeing Performance Get Story Them Working Actor
When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman. Sydney Pollack
You First Bergman Out Fellini Want Start
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. Sydney Pollack
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I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory. Sydney Pollack
Waiting Fly Down Think Air Flying Worst Possible Run About Guy Feel Safe Territory How How Much His Traffic Lot Optimistic Going Just Want Happen Crash Then Much Petrified Ever Watch
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. Sydney Pollack
You Patience Culture Nurture Understanding Consider Our Those Tells Empathy Qualities Feminine Traits List Human Just Us Really Desire
It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again. Sydney Pollack
Great You Would Would-Be Directing Concentration Were Movie While Again Act Interferes Your Vacation
There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer. Sydney Pollack
Entitled Lawyer Nothing Everyone Crooks Having Lawyers Wrong
I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part. Sydney Pollack
Part Tension Feel Terror Just Acting
Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick. Sydney Pollack
You Gun Clothes Out High High Point Point Got Audiences Off Quick Beginnings Get Endings Want Which Interesting Means Now Fast
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. Sydney Pollack
Creative Creative Process Trick Know How Egg Process Starting
It's hard for me to fall in love with a piece of material enough to want to direct it. Sydney Pollack
Love Me Fall Enough Direct Piece Material Want Hard
I love having made a movie. Sydney Pollack
Love Made Having Movie
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
Relationship Three Faye Thriller Days Concentrating Still Wanted Even Film
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. Sydney Pollack
Myself Great Thought Style Every Great Idea Visual Admire Parker Adrian Never Idea Like Stylist Scott Which Them Shot Ridley Scott Alan
Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer. Sydney Pollack
God Time Yourself Every Every Time Directing Name Like Forehead Am Doing Hammer Question Hitting Again Why
It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly. Sydney Pollack
Director Mistake Win Control Situation Terrible Deadly Contest Always Gets Egos Going Actor
Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.' Sydney Pollack
Woman Thought Before Believe Saw Could No-One He Audience Going Anyone Convince
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
Thought Way Johnson He Individualist Combination Always Were Ultimate
I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies. Sydney Pollack
Director Make Am Cult Movies Hollywood Hollywood Movies
I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part. Sydney Pollack
Work Hate Say System Part Term Most Hollywood
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
Job Judgment Believe Favor Involvement Audience Motivate Get Suspend Them
When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices. Sydney Pollack
Work Think Dramatic Mainly Terms Choices
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