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Sydney Pollack Quotes

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

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

Night Wake Up Disaster Up Middle

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.

Thought Way Always Combination He

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

Work Start Decisions Enough You Go

I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.

I Am Movies Hollywood Director Cult

I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part.

Work Hate Say Hollywood System Most

It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

Job Believe Motivate Judgment Get

The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

Marketing Anything Hype Exploitation

When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices.

Work Choices Think Dramatic I Think

If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

Dreams Picture I Can Three Lucky

At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.

Stand Feel Laugh Back Never Always

I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from.

Creative People Think Uncomfortable

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.

Day Gold You Know Want Shooting

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