Sydney Pollack Quotes

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

Sydney Pollack

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 1, 1934 - May 26, 2008

Topics

LifeLovePeopleMeConflictStory

I like throwing on shorts and a plaid button up with messy hair and last night's eyeliner and sunglasses and wandering the town. And if there's a guy I dig with his arm around me, too, that's pretty nice.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

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I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

Melissa Leo

MeActorDirectorLikeDirectVery

I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that.

Matthew Quick

ArtNew YorkBookYouProfessional

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

Amitabh Bachchan

GoodDanceSingingActionComedy

The problem is that the automobile companies are not independent entities capable of pursuing their own interests. Rather, they are owned and controlled by organizations that are much more heavily invested in oil.

Robert Zubrin

ProblemIndependentOilMoreCapable

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

Joseph Butler

LoveRespectSelf-LoveMoreHatred

This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching TV. But I basically never get that chance.

Chris O'Donnell

MyselfChanceHouseSittingNever

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

Brent Scowcroft

StepFirst StepImportantFirstWere

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.

Bradley Chicho

FriendTimeYouGemsPreciousShare

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.

Susan Wiggs

LoveMemoriesNew YorkWritingWorld

My dream is that my kids grow up into nice people; that's my dream.

Tobias Lindholm

PeopleGrowDreamNiceGrow UpUp

You learn from everybody.

Richard Linklater

LearnYouEverybody

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