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...POLLACK: Oh, he was like...
...POLLACK: We did hear a lot of that...
...POLLACK: I had Nicole first, and I was trying very hard to find the actor who would disturb her--I mean, disturb the character. The movie takes place over five days, and there are five major scenes between these two characters, and each one is kind of a one-act play. They have to disturb each other in an attractive way. We didn't have a finished script until deep into the shooting, but I thought, O.K., I know Nic a little bit, I can be embarrassed by asking her to do a picture I don't have a script...
...SYDNEY POLLACK: I'm sure if Hitchcock were alive today, he'd be shooting at the U.N. It was time, honestly, more than anything else. We came at a moment when they were interested in opening up, and we came with good credentials, two terrific actors whose politics were known to the U.N. They were comfortable that we weren't going to make a picture where people were getting it on on the floor of the General Assembly...
...POLLACK: I was desperate to get the building--the movie would have been a fiasco without it--but also desperate not to be a used-car salesman. I met with Kofi Annan and said, "I wish I could tell you we're going to make this great message movie for the U.N., but we're not. It's a thriller. It's sympathetic to the U.N.'s goals, but it's not a preaching piece about politics...