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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.Collection: Sydney
I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.Collection: Sydney
When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.Collection: Sydney
I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I feel in my head from a writer, and that's a... I don't have a recipe for that process. I don't know what it is... it's different every time.Collection: Sydney
We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart.Collection: Sydney
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.Collection: Sydney
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.Collection: Sydney
I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.Collection: Sydney
There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money.Collection: Sydney
I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.Collection: Sydney
I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes.Collection: Sydney
It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again.Collection: Sydney
There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.Collection: Sydney
It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem.Collection: Sydney
I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part.Collection: Sydney
Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick.Collection: Sydney
I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't.Collection: Sydney
By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently.Collection: Sydney
I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.Collection: Sydney
American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.Collection: Sydney
It's hard for me to fall in love with a piece of material enough to want to direct it.Collection: Sydney
I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces.Collection: Sydney
I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something.Collection: Sydney
I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them.Collection: Sydney
I love having made a movie.Collection: Sydney
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.Collection: Sydney
I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I admire enormously - Adrian Lyne, Ridley Scott, Alan Parker - in which every shot has a great idea in them.Collection: Sydney
Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer.Collection: Sydney
It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly.Collection: Sydney
I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.Collection: Sydney
Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'Collection: Sydney
Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'Collection: Sydney
I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.Collection: Sydney
Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.Collection: Sydney
I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.Collection: Sydney
I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part.Collection: Sydney
You can't stop traffic on Times Square.Collection: Sydney
It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.Collection: Sydney
Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman?Collection: Sydney
When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices.Collection: Sydney
If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.Collection: Sydney
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.Collection: Sydney
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.Collection: Sydney
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.Collection: Sydney
There's no money in documentaries.Collection: Sydney
Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory.Collection: Sydney
In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.Collection: Sydney
Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.Collection: Sydney
Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle.Collection: Sydney
I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard.Collection: Sydney