213 Quotes by Sydney Pollack

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

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

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.

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.

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.

There's no money in documentaries.

In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.

There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways.

Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.