Sydney Pollack Quotes

American - Director | July 1, 1934 - May 26, 2008

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.

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

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No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

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

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I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

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

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

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