“Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course...” — Sydney Pollack Quote

“Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these people that I don't necessarily have an answer to.”

“I am not a visual innovator.”

“Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman?”

“It's a lovely thing to see intelligent argument, unbending principle and policy go up against demagoguery, nativism and vulgar name-calling.”

“Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.”

“Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.”