{"author":"Sydney Pollack","author_id":"Sydney+Pollack","total_quotes":17,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Sydney Pollack","tags":["believe","me","want "],"id":4422,"author_id":"Sydney+Pollack"},{"text":"Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.","author":"Sydney Pollack","tags":["well","wonderful","motivated "],"id":12168,"author_id":"Sydney+Pollack"},{"text":"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.","author":"Sydney Pollack","tags":["art","dance","writing "],"id":74526,"author_id":"Sydney+Pollack"},{"text":"If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.","author":"Sydney Pollack","tags":["time","day","light "],"id":110096,"author_id":"Sydney+Pollack"},{"text":"If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.","author":"Sydney Pollack","tags":["culture","empathy "],"id":134353,"author_id":"Sydney+Pollack"},{"text":"I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.","author":"Sydney Pollack","tags":["myself","kid","unpopular "],"id":193043,"author_id":"Sydney+Pollack"},{"text":"When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.","author":"Sydney Pollack","tags":["film","you","idea "],"id":218566,"author_id":"Sydney+Pollack"},{"text":"I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.","author":"Sydney Pollack","tags":["responsibility","world "],"id":239916,"author_id":"Sydney+Pollack"},{"text":"You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.","author":"Sydney Pollack","tags":["change","memory","yourself "],"id":251711,"author_id":"Sydney+Pollack"},{"text":"If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.","author":"Sydney Pollack","tags":["lucky","picture","three "],"id":257256,"author_id":"Sydney+Pollack"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}