“Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, ...” — Sydney Pollack Quote

“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.”

“We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.”

“Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.”

“If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.”

“As much as the constitutional argument matters to me, what really matters to me is this sort of moral question of can we order somebody to risk their lives about a military mission if we're not willing to debate, vote, and say that the military mission matters?”

“Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.”