American - Director | July 1, 1934 - May 26, 2008
It's hard for me to fall in love with a piece of material enough to want to direct it.
Sydney Pollack
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I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces.
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I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something.
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I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them.
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I love having made a movie.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.
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Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'
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Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'
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