213 Quotes by Sydney Pollack

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

Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

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