"With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art,..." — Sydney Pollack

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

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.

You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.