American - Director | July 1, 1934 - May 26, 2008
Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.
Sydney Pollack
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Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle.
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For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.
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You can't stop traffic on Times Square.
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I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.
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I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.
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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.
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I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
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If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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