Sydney Pollack

“I'm interested in the things that are not said, the space between the words.”

“All my movies are about people who are in trouble, who are in some kind of a jam.”

“The hardest thing in the world is to be yourself.”

“A movie is a director's medium.”

“If you can't get an actor to do something, you can't act it out for them. You have to find a way to get them to do it themselves.”

“I don't think that you can be a director without a definite point of view.”

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own.”

“A film is a series of problems that you have to solve.”

“I think the most important thing for a director is to be a good listener.”

“The only thing that really matters is the movie.”

“I don't think you can be a director and not be a story-teller. If you're not a story-teller, you're just a craftsman.”

“I've always been a storyteller.”

“Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.”

“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.”

“You have to have a certain amount of arrogance to be a director.”