“I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love st...” — Sydney Pollack Quote

“I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.”

“If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form.”

“I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory.”

“Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.”

“I guess I'm crazy. If everything was easy-peasy and green lights all the time, it'd be kind of boring.”

“Be kind to the living.”