Sydney Pollack Quotes

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

A little gridlock might be pretty good from time to time.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

I've shot a lot of places, and I've produced. I always thought, 'Gosh, when you shoot in a big city, it's so difficult.' And New York, I always think, 'Where are you going to park the trucks? How are you going to stop the traffic?'

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

You have to take account of traffic, but you should not pander to traffic.

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably.

America faces a mounting transportation crisis, and the primary culprit is road congestion. Traffic makes us unhealthy, wastes enormous amounts of time, and cripples national productivity. America needs expanded roads and transportation infrastructure, but traditional gas tax funding is no longer available.

That L.A. traffic is no joke.

There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path.

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

The main thing I despise about America now is driving on the freeways.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

I know when to go and when to stop. I'm the red, the yellow, and the green light. That's me in a nutshell.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

Stop the traffic...let 'em through.

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.